0.2 Are you Insane Enough to Judge?
07102016 (FRI)
CONSULTATION with DAVID
During the consultation of the 6 topic, David has advised us not to think about the ideas because we do not want to let the idea to control us. If we let the idea control us, it is like limiting ourselves. Therefore even before we begin to do anything, it is important that we get enough research, be it online reading, watching movies, interviews, or any other experiences.
Throughout the whole consultation, it was more about the argument between sanity and insanity, what is real and what is not real. One does not simply question on the reality of everything and simply accept it, which we do not want that. It is important to question, with that, we will then be allowed to call as the detective designers.
To begin with, it is important for us to research about the company/client that we want to use their brand, then afterwards think about the type of message that we want to share in the end. Is there any mutuality to support each other?
It is important to think of what we want to say (objective) and how we want to say (ideas).
1 ANIMAL CRUELTY/TESTING
We begin to discuss about the first topic we have prepared and we were being asked on who is really to be blamed. Initially we thought of something along the line of scientist, something more on the surface. However, further thinking about it, if a scientists do not really use the animals to test, who are they going to test on? Without testing, people who use make up will end up suffering on possibility of getting certain diseases or even injuries. It is possible to test on human, however it is not enough, since they require to be paid. Furthermore since animal has almost similar cells as human thus it should be the lowest cost and most convenient out of all the options.
It is like a cycle of blame, scientist did it simply for the make up and mostly in generic make up is used for women, however if we look at it on another hand, males do use it as well. Thus we do not simply stop at blaming women who are using it. To go deeper, it is either the concept of beauty or even the society.
Society has set a certain standard for how a perfect human should look like, similar to the past, Marilyn Monroe was seek as the Sex Bomb of that period of time, but now some people simply see her as chubby type. Our beauty standard is always changing, and if one is beautiful, they will be looked up to, like a goddess. So is it the concept of beauty to be blamed or the society in this case? or is it something even deeper to the root of it?
If there is no demand of beauty, no concept of beauty, what is the point of testing on animal?
Think about it? Why do women wear mascara even? What does mascara mean? Is it bigger eyes? If so, why do they keen on having bigger eye?
A period of time, there is even the Kylie Jenner lips, and people begin to follow it. They simply do plastic surgery and even the lip suction object just to make themselves having the same lips as her. Is it because Kylie Jenner is simply seem as sexy type goddess in a way, and thus when she tried something new on her face, people begin to feel it as sexy thus they followed it? So is it because of worship? label? or discrimination of something along the line as though “you don’t have this lips so you aren’t that sexy?”
Then on the other hand, people may behave and think like how their culture is like. For instance why is red packet red and not green or black and why must it be in a packet? Red is for luck and auspicious, and it is being wrapped, to give a sense of surprise, though is does not make much sense but it has turned into a tradition, especially during New Year.
When we look at it, make-up is something that has been in the history for a long period of time. Thus it is important for us to have a definitive objective that we want to do.
Who is to be blamed? scientist > woman > man > tradition/society/concept of beauty … …
2 CYBERBULLYING
Keyboard warriors
// A Person who, being unable to express his anger through physical violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery and/or conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually in the form of aggressive writing that the Keyboard Warrior would not (for reasons previously mentioned) be able to give form to in real life. //
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Keyboard%20Warrior
An example of keyboard warrior is like a physical state, if they were to go on the street, they wouldn’t say anything that they are unhappy, e.g. hey you are ugly. However when they are behind the scene, they have the courage to do so. Therefore we have to ask ourselves, as to why do people behave differently online and offline? Some reason behind this is because they do not have friends thus all they can do is just go online and have conversation with the netizens.
Is it still a social issue now?
According to keyboard warriors, they are simply giving out an opinion, and have the mindset of “anyway nobody knows me”. If one makes a comment, and got banned, he is simply able to change account and use a new identity. If he does not wish to be identified, he can simply put a different photo and do it (comment) again.
This case is similar to the god who can take on different forms into someone else, be it human, animals or anything and blend into the communities. Therefore what is the thrill of taking different forms and start to bully people. Looking at it from a different perspective, cyberbullies as like “god”, whereby they can take in different forms and blend into the society simply to either put blessing or even chaos to the world and then go back to their own world. And that world that has been put blessing or chaos is the world of the internet. Basically they can be ANYBODY, you and I too, we can all be anybody online if we want to.
3 STD
According to morals, sex is an activity whereby people will continue to perform be it oral or anything. Unless you are faithful to one partner it is quite easy to get transmitted as long as activities are done.
Initially we thought that very simple actions can lead to STD, but the chances are rather small because when is the instances whereby 2 people will have cuts together and blood exchange? and when will a person actually share toothbrush with another person. Unless we are talking about food here, but no, it is toothbrush. As for food, it is more for Hepatitis B.
Furthermore when we think about blood flow, is it always true? Let’s say a mosquito bite a person with STD and then bite another human again, there will be slight blood exchange here, so why aren everyone with STD now? because it doesn’t truly works like that. Thus most likely is more about the sexual activities.
However, we can read up more about the consequences and the causation of not having protection. And think about whether it is true that wearing a condom means respecting the woman? or is it that not wearing condom means living the life loosely?
For STD, it is only a bad news if we really allow it.
4 SCHIZOPHRENIA
Schizophrenia is known as someone with imagination and not simply imagination but also able to trigger the sense of hearing and more. Let’s look at the movie ‘6th Sense’ which is about a kid who can see ghost. However people do not believe him, so is he telling the truth or is it simply because he is imaginish?
Sometimes when someone has a bad experience in the past, e.g. got scared by a cat, afterwards, he or she might even be paranoid, and the paranoia will get even worse overtime, which one might even begin to feel the presence of cats around them.
What if one day, a person tell you, “hey, someone is going to murder me..”, or even scream fire out of the blue when there is no fire. Will you believe him or will you be realistic, only believe what you see? So will you begin to classify him as a Schizo? or simply some human with mental problem? But what if it is real?
We have to understand that sometimes people with schizo, has a hard time of differentiating what is real and what is not. As what the common people (not necessarily to be sane) classified them, they are having delusions, they can see things that common people can’t see, but is what they see real?
Thus it is important for us to research on:
people who has such symptoms
how they live their life
how people around them live with them
at what stage you cannot live with them
can they identify what is real and fake
If you we to live with someone who is constantly telling you someone is going to murder them or even fire out of a sudden, how will you feel? mental breakdown? or?
Thus we want to find out whether you can identify the sickness of what is right and real. If they can identify what is real and fake, what can we do? people to experience schizo or?
5 OCD
Some causes behind OCD might be because of past experiences, for instance a girl had food poisoning thus afterwards she would constantly clean the table and cutleries, repeating it again and again. Furthermore some people diagnosed with OCD, will tend to wash their hands when they are stress. Thus sometimes you can see them their hands are often filled with dry skins. Furthermore they might not even eat well and just chose a certain food to take in.
Actually OCD slows down people as they might spend more time doing a lot of things more than necessary. Therefore we have to understand about the reason behind why they are like that. There must be an occurrence whereby something that might have traumatised them.
Another example of a real case is person A forgot to lock the door once and then freaked out. Thus overtime, whenever she is leaving the house, she would check it, pull it for a certain number of times. Then we have the SARS that happened in the past, people became OCD and the OCDs became even more OCD.
Basically when you are traumatised you will start to live your life differently. Therefore this means that OCD. This means that OCD is not something that happens when you born but it happens when trauma is triggered.
SANITY
Then we have the insanity and sanity, autistic kids are seen as people who cannot behave normally, is it true? It is not really true that they are crazy, they are simply genius in a certain ways, such as Albert Einstein. They have a certain skill sets, though they will create certain kind of convenience but they tend to see things differently from common people. Autistic is actually not even wrong, it is simply because common people are like this, and autistic people are the minority thus they get categorised.
However let’s think about it this way, if us common people behave normally why are there still wars? Therefore lets take a step back and look at OCD people or even any mental health? Why are they not normal? maybe they are normal just that we can’t accept them. Is schizo really simply because of their mind and brain playing with them or is it actually real? Is women really presented correctly in front of a male? Why even wear high heels? one will even break the ankle because of that! Why bounded feet in the past whereby it will cause a deform in the shape of the feet and it was still seen as normal? Is it because we accepted it as the right thing, and thus is wasn’t crazy? So who is actually the sane and who is the insane one?
We have to know that people actually do know about the issue, be it cruelty and etc. We all know, but we are not changing mindset, changing behaviour, nothing has been changed. It is simply because we do not know how to react, especially in Singapore, if people say that you are weird, you will begin to feel that you are weird. So why do you want to fit in to the community? Why people diagnosed with schizophrenia or even any sorts of mental problems need to fit in? Were the community too judgemental in a way?
It is important for us to find the root of the cause. Basically who created the segregation of you are sane, and you are insane?
After the 20th century, psychology was created. Before 20th century, there wasn’t even any. In the history of the past, there was no such thing as checking whether you are crazy or not. As long as you behave differently from the others, you will be exorcised. So what we see now is that the past action was wrong however it was right to begin with that period of time. What was correct in the past is wrong now.
Basically in the past, human were classified. According to the Indian Caste System, Brahmins were the highest and then we have the Pariah as the last one, those who were kicked out of the society, behave like tribesman but lower than them, and no morals. Back them, if a man want to married woman, they had to worry about their classes. Either be discriminated or worse.
Similar to be OCD and Autistic, be it in the past or the present, people are still being classified. In fact, last time there wasn’t any autism, it only happened now. There is even a school, Pathlight, but parents refused to send their kids over there, because simply because their kids are autistic, they do not want them to be seen as different from the others. Therefore, are we too judgemental in a way, because technically they are still human, of the human race.
Why society want to categorise them? Is it a good thing to categorise people? Just like people with Asperger, they talk and decipher differently but one this is, they are very smart and talk bombastically.
Those mental illness right now are however being categorised, just like how autism has lots of combo right now thus psychiatrist are trying to find new terms for it, new categorisation, new name. So what if one day, Chinese are officially announced as non-human race. How will you feel? You might be treated like an animal and etc, so how will those people who feel that they are normal and being deemed as someone with mental issue?
What if one day someone were to tell you that you have OCD, how will you really feel? All the time you feel that you are doing something normal, and common and people call you OCD. To one is normal, to the other is crazy. It is important for us to probe to the root of this issue. So what is sane and what is insane. Is it because you don’t accept them thus they are deem to be insane? But what if we are actually the insane one?
Are you going to tell the gay people that they are crazy because they don’t behave like what is deem to be “normal” human? Sometimes you might be right but sometimes even “normal” human are wrong because are we really normal? or are the simply common, behave the same way thus we accept it as being “normal”.
A book that questions about right and wrong by German Friedrich Nietzsche actually mentioned that all the wrong things and right thing are designed by people who could choose and make the choice. In the past, it is simply because the noble has a chair thus they sat on it and deem it as the right thing to sit. However as a beggar, they do not have the chair, thus the noble will teach them that it is right to sit on the chair. Nobles eat using cutleries because they have it and deemed it as the right way to eat, whereas beggar simply ate right away, thus nobles told them it is the right way to eat with cutleries.
Then there is the “ladies and gentlemen”, whereby the idea of it is people who talk nicely, sit elegantly like an upperclassman. This simply means that they are imitating the people of higher class person in order to be ladies and gentleman. Thus rules were invented by the nobles, the rich, therefore right and wrong have been invented by them.
People will think that it is crazy to question the right and wrong, as right is simply right. However we have to think it in a way that evil is all the mind of people. The world is evil because the mind is evil. Don’t blame other things as the mind is the one that actually created the rules, and that justification might not be fair to some people.
For instance some rules and regulations are set to all people but based on someone’s belief. The general calories intake is 1500 calories. However we have to think that western people are normally bigger size than the Asian thus the calories intake aren’t really that “general”. Furthermore it is normal for Westerner to go see psychiatrist anytime as it is normal but when you do that in Singapore, people will begin to question your sanity, and see you as a weirdo. Then it is perhaps normal to go to mental hospital for like 2-3 days, like wrong diagnosis or just “check up” but if you told anyone like that in Singapore they won’t see it in a positive light.
So all in all, this simply sums up the fact that richer/noble came up with choices, they had the say in everything as they were being looked up to, thus the power to define the right and the wrong.
Path light School it is mostly catered to help the autistic, it is NOTHING like a mental hospital but it is simply helping them to remember things and the ways to teach. However there are several parents who refused to send their kids there, not only because of the fact that it makes it seem like their kids are “abnormal” but also something about the society being too judgemental.
Anybody realise that Autistic people actually makes great engineers? This is because they love rules. So how can we say that it is mental issue when they have a gift, a special gift that not any of us have? So who is this fella who said autism is different from “normal human” when “normal human” aren’t exactly “normal” but simply common!?
What if we replaced autism with something else? people who can draw nicely are not normal why accept them? They have special gift! They are different! So why? Because society accepts them!
People classified the designers as sane but is it true? Designers are in fact very emotional just like musicians. Artists are actually very crazy. Why did we bring this up? Mentally challenged people are actually very artistic too, when they were asked to paint, some of their paint might even be better than those painter. Why? They expressed their emotions. So at here, we are gonna ask you, are you still sane?
Long long time ago… …
There was witch hunt and normally women are being killed. Why is that so? This is because women in the part normally create their own remedies as medicine wasn’t advanced. Come’on, it was in the past, like really long ago, 500 years ago even. The women then were killed and burned alive as they saw them as “witches” though they were simply creating remedies to heal a wound or sickness.
Then there was a belief in the past, when they see someone different, they put a wall in front of them. There was a movie called Milk, the first gay american, whereby a guy called Harvey Milk openly claimed he was gay and was assassinated. John Lennon, fought for war and got assassinated. They simply got killed for standing for their belief! Why so?
There was even an experiment on people to experience Schizo. Bind their hearing, sight, and etc, can’t hear, speak or anything. Basically deprive them of their 5 senses. Within certain amount of time, in order for them to realise that they are still alive, their mind begin to be stimulated! Thus some people claimed that they heard some voices, and even people approaching them when there wasn’t any. Therefore this shows that there is a very thin line between sane and insane!
So who exactly determined what is right and what is wrong and why?
Are you seeing the truth?
Do you know that data goes to your mind slower? Just like illusions. Technically it isn’t spinning but it looks like it is. This is because our brain is trying to predict but it isn’t predicting the correct thing. Basically our eye has a delay time travel to the brain to change the image. In conclusion, our mind is always predicting what is going to happen next. So it means that our mind is predicting when we see optical illusion moving around.
This shows that our mind is never deciphering the truth. For an OCD people, they might be cleaning, because the mind is telling them not clean, their mind is telling them that there are bacterias around.
On the other hand, when you are seeing looking at people, you aren’t seeing the real human but is light. So now, do you see me or are you just seeing light?
Technically we aren’t solid! We are filled with water! When someone asked what you are made of, tell them molecules as we are all carbon. In fact, nothing is solid.
The world is basically not what you see it is.
In what ways are we right? Maybe in 100 years time, we don’t even have school, and it is wrong to have teachers. Basically what was agreed upon 10 years ago, are not agreed anymore in the present time. Right are constantly replacing the wrong. In the past, gays are closed up, now you might even find your closest friend being a gay and proud of it. So as time passes by, our sense of right and wrong will change as well. It is just like when we age our perception of right and wrong changes as well. Like how we used to like rock music but we might find it annoying as our senses begin to fail.
When we accept something, we think that it is correct and when we don’t it is wrong. For instance, kill one person and you are a murderer; killing 1000 people, and you are a conqueror.
WHY WHITE IS THE MODERN COLOUR?
In a banker, it is important to wear make up for women and if they don’t it is disrespectful. However, who said so? When was the first time women want to paint their fact? and men don’t have to? Look at superstar, everyone are all wearing make up, so it has become ‘real beauty’
Sometimes truth are in fact built as everybody talks about it thus it became a truth. It is featured in a book by John Bullyar, whereby sometimes our eyes is fake but when everyone has been talking about it, and then everyone became to accept it and it turns real.
So why are we saying the schizo are not seeing the real thing? Why are we calling them crazy when we don’t even see the truth. Why judge?
In the past, women were not even human in the past decades. When you are married to them, you are their property. Why is this so? 100 years ago, it was a wrong thing for women to vote, and housewives cannot make the right decision as they are less superior in fact, non-superior. This is because in the past, men were more exposed and go to work.
Furthermore, in the past, hysteria was treated as an illness and man believe it was a cursed of a woman. Thus doctor trying to cure it using vibrators. However looking at it now, it is just normal to have hysteria, it is nothing like a disease at all.
So basically our perception of what is real can be changed. As people are all talking about it <power of influence>, “this is real”, “this is correct”, “this is good”, then the next thing we see is everyone starting to do it. There is nothing such as real truth. Everyone is talking about it, thus this is why it became a “bad news” such as schizo, mental illness, woman’s beauty, and etc.
All in all, are we really seeing the whole truth in our life? Why are there wars when we call us “sane” and why we call the gifted insane? Is it because of minority vs majority? or is it the fact that we just can’t accept what is in front of us thus we are in constant denial. So are we actually the crazy one and those people with the so called mental illness are actually the “normal ones”? What is normal and are YOU sure that you are sane? By the end of this post, if you are beginning to feel insane, you are sane as…
You are sane by recognising your insanity.
Interesting knowledge:
humans are avatars, we create accounts like Facebook and Instagram, as though we are taking different forms.
Read mythologies of how they come down and create chaos, Because their power will change form.
When a greek was very powerful? Man sold live by philosophies, the ruler is elected. To believe in freedom of choice, everyone has a choice. They even have a dream, a perfect country.
Read up on a book by German Friedrich Nietzsche , someone who wrote about right and wrong.
After the consultation, we have realised that we have a lack of research for our topic, therefore further research is need. Furthermore it is important for us to take a stand, if we are talking about changing mindset, what kind of mindset do we want to change? In fact, it is important that we see the problem in a more profound way so that it is more about the society and not simply on something that is small which might not be able to stir up much emotions.
Basically in Experimental, is important for us to question things down to the basic, like a detective. Sometimes what we see as bad news might not be what others see as bad news thus we have to turn it in a way or maybe we can even change how it is like. What if we turn bad news into good news?
The beyond good and evil, time and me hiediger, what makes you you.
Why we see this is as a bad news and not see this as a good news? Why this is bad? i never thought this is bad but why do you think this is bad?