| my response to the question of clothes... shame... why we wear clothes other than for survival purposes is an issue of shame... why are we ashamed?... why wei, do you not want to see me nekkid?... (don't answer that)... and why mal, do i not want to see you naked and vice versa?... (again, don't answer that)... okay so if its shame... i guess that goes deeper into the issue of why do we feel ashamed?... it seems like this feeling of being physically exposed is a universal trait among all humans, since all humans have differing variety of clothing other than plain potato sacks... i just don't think it makes sense biologically... "humans don't make much sense in the biological mainframe"... i quote my genetics/molecular biology professor... i think she was mainly talking about natural selection, survival of the fittest... we just don't obey that theory... all other beings appear to obey this... so why not humans?... emotion, justice, love, knowledge... have you ever tried to define an emotion?... you know immediately how to react and respond to someone who is happy they did well on a test vs. someone who's loved one just died... but try to give an operational definition of happy or sad or any emotion and its impossible... its like trying to explain color to the blind or sound to the deaf... so back to the fray... why shame?... logically speaking, there's nothing shameful about being naked... you are what you are, you're made how you were made... some may stop at this point and say, "its the just the way it is"... but i'd like to go a step further... the best account that i have heard is from the Bible... if anyone else has anything else about the origin of clothing, i'd love to read it... so the Bible basically states that... the origin of man arises from God creating Adam and Eve... they were put in a pretty lavish position and situation being above all living things on earth... except they had a single solitary rule of not eating from the tree of knowledge... through deception, Adam and Eve both ate from the tree... immediately after, God asks where they are... and Adam immediately responds, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because i was naked, so i hid."... in which God responds, "Who told you that you were naked?..." etc... so its not really about a matter of insecurity because everyone is going to be insecure from birth... some may socialize themselves into being familiar with the sight, but its very inherent that we're just not supposed to be naked... and there's where i stop and say, "its just the way it is"... so why do we wear clothes?... cuz i don't wanna see you naked (or do i?) |
