Some things ARE a given

  Someone asked if our society is what caused a rape culture. My response was along the lines of "Isn't that a given?". She replied that nothing is a given. I beg to differ, it is only not known to be a given by those who haven't observed cause and effect. For example: every human being is full of fear. It is the underlying motivator for all we do. Yet if you ask your average person, they would look at you like you're crazy for thinking they are afraid constantly. Especially the "daredevils" and thrill seekers. Yet they are not immune to fear or fearless, they are simply conditioned to it. It is constantly flowing and churning flowing at their cores which they do not "hear" as one does not hear the blood pumping through their own ears or see the tips of their noses or smell their own homes. Our senses tune out everything it can take for granted as "normal", including a constant emotion. If it's always there, we tune it out as something we can take for granted until it becomes too loud to ignore, alerting us to UNUSUAL perceived danger. The usual danger, we've programmed our selves to deal with and we maintain that "manageable" or accustomed level.
   Now what about society, what makes it logically result in a sick culture? Well, let's begin the human experience with birth. Whatever stress levels we experienced in the womb disregarded, we can imagine being thrust out of our warm, safe environment into sudden cold openness with bright lights, in unfamiliar hands, amongst unfamiliar voices and smells. How many adults can cope well with culture shock? And yet we are just babies.
  If we are blessed, we are immediately placed to our mother's breast and are relieved to feel the warmth, familiar hands, the familiar heartbeat and familiar voice a bit more clearly and sharply than before. But that is only for moments as the strange, cold methodical hands and voices of medical professionals strip you out of your comfort zone into nakedness once more, violations such as intrusive examinations, piercing of the skin and muscle tissues with sharp needles and in the case of males; mutilation of the gentiles. They say we don't remember, but the body remembers EVERYTHING, as is demonstrated by a flinching reflex.
  Between exams and intrusions we do have those moments of comfort in familiarity until we are brought home. Some are blessed with stay-at-home experiences with only occasions for weekly "checkups"; invasions and piercings of the skin for scheduled immunizations. But many if not most are abandoned to strangers into daycares and as soon as possible schools. And that is all just the beginning of the western human experience. But, I am presently distracted by an event in town and can't focus on this. may write more later, but wouldn't need to if ya'll would just honestly reflect and put yourself in your own damn shoes!