Deconstruction
Our view of human reality is based on a lot of assumptions and stereotypes, which are useful tools to make it easier for us to react and interact to everything that happens to us. These tools are given to us during our life by our parents, family, and from society in general, both by what we are taught and by what happens to us and to others.
Like all tools, these are powerful and potentially dangerous ones, that evolve though the generations either by acceptance, reaction, and reason. Acceptance is when we do or think something because we’ve been taught, even if our comprehension is nonexistent or merely self-referential; reaction is when new behaviors and beliefs are adopted, not necessarily by the use of thought, but many times just by the natural rebellion against the status quo, the human drive for change; and reason, it’s when these behaviors and beliefs evolve not by mere acceptance or reaction, but by a conscious analysis.
One of my goals in life is to always maintain a very healthy dose of self doubt regarding what I believe and what I do, constantly deconstructing my culture of assumptions and stereotypes to the smallest pieces possible, studying them in detail, and rebuilding it. I guess that in the end I am a hacker of myself.
