Have
you ever wondered why kids need special care from parents, why they need to be
taught, guided and protected? Every teaching that has been given is due to the
fact that when a child was born, he/she has absolutely zero
understanding of our world. Guidelines are inevitable for everybody, by with
those guidelines, it becomes a boundary that limits our way of understand. We
could say that, our basic thoughts were programmed into our brains since the
first day that we were born.
It
is quite an interesting argument for those who claims that we all born with
freedom. They might thing that all their rights and choices and freewill that
they choose to think, but deep down we were already taught to have the same
basics ideas.
We
are living in a modern world that has been developed for a long time, unlike our
previous worlds that were collapse, we are still standing today because of this
idea about basic guidelines that keep the society in an well organized system. These
guidelines are not as bad as it might seem to be, it becomes part of our nature
habits and can be beneficial for those who understand the principle of it.
Let’s
talk about the way of interpretation first, have you ever wondered about how we
can identify and separate different habits from our normal daily habits? Why we
can instantly know that we should sit on a chair, drink with a glass or put a
sock on our feet even when we can do these tasks in a completely unique ways?
It is because we all able to interpret the proper way of doing things. This interpretation
thinking is not just only happens to simple tasks, on a contrary, it existed in
many subjects even in architecture.
In
architecture, we can see the way of interpretation even from those basic structures,
almost everybody lived in a designed and constructed space which means that the
teachings of interpretations or guidelines has been apply to many generations
before us. Imagine standing in a room, how do we that it’s safe? How can we
tell which space is accessible? How can we identify it? The answer is by what
we have been programmed. We understand a wall as a solid that separate a space and
forms a more specific space, we know that a door means accessible unless it was
locked. This is a very interesting thing and almost unable to denied because we
all born and lived like this.
Now,
there is a writing that involves the concept of basic interpretation and more interestingly
the way to manipulate it into a theory, “Lethal Theory” by Eyal Weizman. His concept is
about how we adapt these knowledge and then turned it into unexpected strategies
against others. The very best example that I am very impress is The Walking Through
Walls Theory, it is literally walking through it. He knows that by our subconscious
we interpreted walls as a safe boundary, and least expected to be penetrated
through. That’s why it is the most effective to caught people off guarded.
It
is my point of view that we all born without a true freedom, in order to
maintain a society that we lived in today, the system must be made as basic
guidelines. I did not say that we will never have freedom in our lives,
obviously we can but only after we understand the system completely. We could
say that the system of interpretation protects us until we becomes strong
enough to maintain the way of life then finally we can have freedom started
from that point.
