Cogs in the Wheel.

hollow crown - Isaac grace 🎧

Here are two topics I've always wanted to talk about, they're eating at me since time immemorial, and this was the chance for me to hop on em.

Read to the end. 

There was this dim, gloomy night in the place where I study. We all stepped on the threshold of our house, depressed and down-and-out for absolutely zero reasons. Then we got into the house, and my roommates all gathered in the 'Parisian Salon', aka, my room, again, for absolutely no blatant reason. Then I had to initiate the conversation, and it went absurdly something like this:

- Yo, guys wtf is up with y'all? why's it that we are all despaired, we had a very normal day, hadn't we?

- Wayeeh! it sucks, we were fine a couple of hours ago. WEIRD.

- Well, it's probably because we had a very normal day. 

- I guess yes.

I immediately connected my laptop to a pair of speakers, and this beautiful song came in first in shuffle, 'Lack of Color' by Death Cab for Cutie. One of the guys lit up a cigarette, the other sunk his head on my lap-pillow, and the other one was looking at my stamps book (I was like W9ef 3nd 7dek). For me, there's nothing like a beautiful Moroccan tea with mint all over its bottoms and the shore-like sound of foam with four cubes of sugar. This rekindled the mood, and we gathered around again, talking about our crushes, our quirks, and our shortcomings. 

Then we moved on to talk about our childhood, and school memories. We were all reminiscing back to back, for such a long time. Then I realized something. 

NOBODY LISTENS TO ANYBODY. Once one finishes their memory, the other begins with absolutely no linking words or any expression that suggests or recognizes the story of the other. And it sucks, not just in our posse, but everywhere, we don't listen and we don't give the other enough recognition- unless it was unintentional- which is excusable. The thing is, once we lend an ear, we should lend it emphatically, and not just waiting for their turn to end so that you say your story. Otherwise, that means we all suck convincing each other that the stories are actually riveting.

The second topic is something I've already lamented on my Instagram story. Looking down on Sociology. 

Sociology is one of the most intricate sciences ever. If you wanna come at it, with accurate facts- there's no such thing as accurate facts or results because even hard science tend not to neglect that 1% left, it's just the law of probabilities. Understanding the human subject is inordinately complex, because it's the closest thing to us, it's US in fact. The extent of complexity in the human subject is so contradictory and incommensurable in effect. Remember 'Rhizomes', that's what we are, we are not easy to dissect (not literally, of course, lol) but to break our psyche down, is quite demanding and pretty much impossible to come up with a decidable answer to. That's why we should respect and appreciate sociology for one big FACT. It debunks essentialist views on human values. When a certain study, ends up having incongruent results, it only means one thing - The truth about that very particular thing (e.g. Gender roles) is quite fluid and not as fixed as one postulates.

Margaret Mead, on one of her studies, found out that certain civilizations are actually in terms with gender fluidity, nudity, transgenderism and she concluded that they are more developed than the US itself. Marx, in his sociological perspective, brought up the biggest enemy to corrupt capitalism. Why? because the capitalist division of society creates schism within its elements, thus it brings about class conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeois. duBois would also follow on the sociological paradigms, as he came up with racial conflict. That of which goes against eugenics and capitalist persuasion of people that there are -scientifically- (Social Darwinism was the fucking pretext. Hitler used this to burn the jews btw) races better than other ones. Durkheim dissected suicide with, what was known to be one of the earliest studies, in history. Suicide, he contends, stays something personal and psychological, but, it's still not the influential factor in the equation. Psychology is pretty much related to sociology and societal facts (facts with small f, subjective facts). Suicide, in Durkheim's study, is highly propelled by the gruesome effects of society on the individual. 

There are ample studies that proved the complexity of humans and dispelled fucking essentialist and structuralist views on everything because that's just horse shit duuuuuuuuuude. 

Also, Sorry if this sounded like an academic essay, I had to explain this shit- otherwise- it'll eat me alive 🤷‍♂️.