Wednesday, January 21, 2009

been quite thoughtful these days.

if what we love about a person is his/her personal culture at this point of time, then when their culture changes, will we have any reason to love the person anymore still? 

Will we say, I no longer know you

or will we proceed to understand this new change and accomodate this person who has changed?

Personal Culture refers to the person's character, habits, ways of looking at things, rituals, all the things that make the image of this person in front of us.

Then taking it a step further, what happens when we do not engage in the other person's personal culture, but instead look for archetypal models churned out by popular culture? Instead of going further to understand a person, we look for people who fit popular culture's image of "male suitor" and "female chic", or perhaps "emo boy" or "indie girl"?

And if that's so happenth, what happens when, after finding someone whose consumption patterns and culture that fits these archetypes, we continue to expect that this someone adheres to this model totally? What happens when we expect someone to be "normal"? And what if being "normal" is but an ideal? 

Who are we falling in love with? 

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