Name a color... any color.
Blue.
Name something that is blue.
The sky.
Why?
Why what?
Why is it blue?
Well, you see, the color is caused by scattering light. Long lightwaves move through gas easily while short ones (blue waves) are captured by gas particles. The color is given off in all directions in the sky and it looks blue to humans.
But how do you know its BLUE?
Colors, like many things in life are taught. Truth is, I don't know much. I choose to believe or accept what has been told/taught to me and this is taken for knowledge. Take colors for example; during a conversation about life, a man once asked me "What is blue?" I said a color. He then asked, " Well give me an example." I reply "The sky is blue." He then asks "How do you know that the sky isn't purple?... How do you know that long ago, there wasn't a guy who made a mistake? How do you know that he didn't get his purples and blues mixed up? How do you know that he didn't get enough people to believe him, that they too got their B's and P's all mixed up and didn't teach others?" A seemingly simple question with a profound meaning and endless possibilities. The reason I see colors as I do is because I chose to agree with society. I chose to listen to my kindergarten teacher when we went over the color wheel. And she too chose to listen to her teachers. Her parents both, most likely, chose to conform with societies perception. Truth is, we don't know much. We choose to believe a lot. We choose to agree on alot. But we don't know much.
"The average man can't prove of most of the things that he
chooses to speak of" - Damien Marley
I like that you used the color idea because it's true. I was in class the other day and our teacher was telling us that color is pretty much an illusion of ours, wavelengths of light. It was weird though because I realized I had could have disagreed but how does one disprove another? Even if it is that they don't know much, how does one know they know it all?
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