#liberalmind

[aldajahh]

Aveces te entran esas ganas inmensas de votar todo a la mierda,salir viajar y vivir,vivir de verdad sentirte libre pero le tememos a salir de nuestra zona de confort

[the-bulletproof-gal]

What impression do we give people? Even if we purposefully shut off all effort to please others, and remain our ugly true selves, there cannot be one hundred percent satisfaction.

Their opinion shows in the ways they treat us. We all are categorized on a daily basis.

What gender? What nationality? What social class? What sexual preferences? What perversion is hiding beneath the surface?

We revolve entirely around social constructs and prejudices.

Have we not learned from the past?

And although you would not like to admit it, you do it too.

We are raised in an environment where classification is considered absolutely normal. Nobody would think to feel embarassment for their narrow minds.

We laugh about enhanced stereotypes in sitcoms, but do these make us question their real effects in daily life?

Classification hits you as a brick in the beginning. No matter how hard you fight it, the stereotypes that are engraved into the inside of your skull will show through.

As soon as we encounter somebody new, our eyes perceive and give information to our brain. External features? Movement? Mimic?

Our ears hear. Do we like the voice? Does this person sound domestic?

These are natural processes. We cannot intervene the signals our brain is sending.

The best we can do is not to show it in our behaviour.  

Classification is not invincible.

His biggest enemy is knowledge.

The moment we begin a conversation, the moment we start accumulating information about our newly met counterpart, the classification is forced to break apart. The moment we are confronted with truths that contradict what we assumed to know, the stereotypical pictures in our head can no longer exist.

We were so sure to know better. We have watched this and that documentary. We have read this and that book. We should stop fooling ourselves.

We know nothing.

The world is in constant change. So are we.

Our understanding advanced. We are living in heterogeneous environments where all tastes are dissolving into one big hole of multiculturality.

And still, we are flawed. And still, our brains are signaling.

When will we cease to define?

Can we change the way our brain is programmed?

Educating ourselves is our only hope. Knowledge will fight classification. Knowledge will bind, interrupt, alter, and finally, have the power to fully change WHICH signal is sent to our brain.

Mankind has to advance to a point where counterparts are viewed as mere human beings, in the most neutral, unbound, impartial perception.