Its an interesting thought experiment. We as humans adapt to our surroundings and judge everything that we come in contact with. Could it be that everything we perceive is relative to everything else we come in across.
Example: say since birth you constantly looked at dog poo, and its something you saw and came across many many times every single day. Wouldn't it be conceivable to think that you would find that some piles of dog poo looked better than others. Even go so far as to say that some poo was beautiful while other poo was ugly.
This example is obviously very extreme but I want people to think about how our ideas and concepts are shaped from the beginning of our lives.
Tell me what you think about comparing things relativistically to each other, and come up with some other examples that could also work.
2006-12-18 17:59:56 · 2 answers · asked by Mighty Thinker 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
When you have a chance, go to your collge library and take out the movie,"The Yellow Wallpaper". It's about a female writer who used her imagination (because that's all she had left) when her very important Doctor husband took away her writing tools.
She saw things in the yellow wallpaper that freed her, in the manner that no writing instrument could do. This is what you are referring to. Our minds are active and even if we have to we can find beauty in the most disgusting things.
2006-12-18 18:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by ♨ Wisper ► 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
2006-12-20 11:56:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋