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10月1日 Broadcast What is time? What is 'spending time'? How does the car salesman who knows the price and features of every car in his caryard know the scores and winners of all the AFL grand finals of the last 10 years? How does the girl who says baking muffins and cupcakes is 'all she does' studies to get the marks she needs to get into law school? How does the guy who's watched every season of Top Gear know every detail and policy of not only the West Australian state election race, but the long running US Presidential election, and how can he still know all the lines and moves to hook up on a saturday night? How does the girl who likes anime also manage to know how feelings work so well? How is the guy who studies medicine still able to converse with anyone on any topic you can raise? How does the kid who spends all his evenings cooped up with books in the library still know all the words of all the chart hits this year, so he knows what to sing when he's dancing in Northbridge tonight? What about the business man on the bus who's spend the day selling stocks and will come home to satiate his passion for classic cinema? How do you people manage? If people have an unlimited number of dimensions to their personality, from where do they muster the mental organisation to manage it all? Everyday I marvel at just how much is contained within a single human brain. The fact that society actually exists means that every person within it actually has to agree to a certain language and certain patterns of thinking, ettiquette and protocol, and where you learn this comes less from experience than it does from messages from society, instructions given to you by society for how to behave and interact with others. It's not a bad thing at all, it just is. As far as where the messages come from, I'm stumped, and I think about it every day. Does television assign each of us a personality? Does our family raise us with their own outlook on the world? Is the convention of waiting in lines for ATMS written down in law? Do street signs remind us of the game we're all supposed to be playing? Human customs are communicated from somewhere, and we seem to be able to hear the nuances of these customs even with work, uni and whatever other commitments we have that command our attention. My mission is to try and find where the customs are communicated from, and when I do, I'll let you know. |
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