When we wake up everyday we enter a system. When we go to sleep everyday we fall asleep to the tune of another system. Finally, everything in between that we experience in our lives is induced by a system. How can we walk into class one day and listen to our teacher tell us that everything that we experience and come to rely on is a social construct? Although this new knowledge seemed shocking at first it somewhat made sense.
As soon as we are born we are introduced to social systems. We are born into the world finding out that families consist of a father, mother, and sibling, however that system is now rarely successful. We learn that love is rare and monumental but is also necessary for happiness. We begin the education process as early as possible and become worried if educational standards are not met. Finally most attend church every Sunday in an effort to worship or exercise our beliefs.
All these systems are concepts that we rely on everyday, except Im not sure that the reason we rely on these systems is because of the constant random suffering that the world continues to inflict. We seek out these systems in fear of loosing them. After grasping these constructs so vigorously we cannot bear to loose them maybe they provide the comfort and support that we need as human beings but they also give us a sense of normality.
I had the same change in opinions about the notion of systems in our lives. I thought the whole idea was absurd when Mr. Heidkamp first brought it up, but now it makes more sense once I really think critically about my own life and the world around me. I completely agree with your argument that we hold onto these systems in fear of losing them. Things that we see and experience during our childhood really affect the way we view the world and what we perceive as "normal," and we hold onto these ideas for the rest of our lives. Thus, breaking away from a system would be similar to losing our childhoods, which we have a strong desire to hold on to.
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