Hi there, my name is Yvonne. I'm seventeen years old and I'm a pansexual Satanist. I love video games, ceramics, and marching band. I'm also a German wannabe, but we'll keep that to ourselves.
Bleibst schön, liebe.
The most dangerous phrase in the language is, “we’ve always done it this way.”
“Come on, let’s mix it up!” The heart surgeon says.
“B-but we’ve always done it this way!” The other replies, “this is how you replace a heart valve.”
“That’s the most dangerous phrase in the human language!” The first surgeon replies haughtily as he inputs a fruit loop into the patient’s heart. “This will be his valve. He will be a fruit loop in a world of Cheerios.”
(taken from this post on the experiments of Harry Harlow)
This is serious business, because this is a large part of how sexism, racism, homophobia, rape culture, ethnocentrism, etc. continue to happen.
That bullshit heart surgery example doesn’t even make sense though, does that person think that we’re still doing heart surgery the exact same way we’ve always done heart surgery? As if medicine isn’t constantly changing and updating? Wow it’s almost like people are finding excuses to not have to think critically about the world!
You mean we don’t still take people’s brains out and rub them in salt to dispel the devil and cure headaches? I’m pretty sure that’s established medieval protocol, wouldn’t want to mix things up.
every now and then a show comes along that doesn’t just change the playing field, but it kind of blows the whole stadium out. you start over, and you’re reinventing the game and how we watch it, and the players are totally different. their message is unique and daring and our impressions and the way we deal with them aren’t the same ever again. well, this was one of those shows.
