Friday, February 20, 2009

Cultural Apprenticeship

Tibetan funeral for an example, the land is rocky to dig, not enough wood to burn their deceased so they chopped corps feed to birds or fishes. That’s right, birds are sky gods and fishes are water gods. It is called “sky burial or water burial” to compassion to the nature, nice respectively disguised the gruesomeness but very much economical reason. A chivalry man’s an hour for chopping labor much cheaper then digging hours ground and buried with a nice wooden coffin. A burial alone costly but also take up land as well. Many gruesome cruelties were carried out under the glorious deeds of tradition or religion. Many cultures, customs traditions, the way how we brought up how we feel think see are very essence of unwritten honorees or squeakiness. Many time over I have deep admiration our forbears’ bold creativity and their improvisation for whatever means. Often their religious ritual was very much practical economical daily living. Yes indeed very economical. Taught us the ways of command obedience, defiance and sacrifice etc… all but dealing harsh realties with live with nature. Another incomprehensive one, old china women binding foot, must foot fetish in old days, why deformed foot? You may well ask! Not a small but a deformity was symbol of beauty, bizarre sexual fancies for pervasiveness or perverts. so pitiful crippled women are sexy then all man are sexually aroused by women’ deformity. This all please to their men! O man! So what this mean is that, all men are beast they arouse in any and any place! Whether you are wielded with promulgation intellectual sects or order of compilation Jo the plumber! Anyway billion women did it so it must be a some incredible reason to endure such painful squawked their feet into chopstick coddles for centuries. That made them feel beautiful feel sexy in their hash life, well what the hell! Current trend of women breasts augmentation, yes millions of women are doing it so must be right! If it made them feel exult of enlightenment of their womanhood that would be a great thing! In Korean, until my grandmamma generation the women virtue was ” don’t see, don’t hear, don’t feel, don’t speak” made women dumb gumbo jumbo dummies. Prisoner of their own body. Bewitched themselves as they were goodness in a orchid form. Wonder that was why so much wrath in their hearts. Every counting rosary beads were their curses, rather then happiness. That’s why shamanism so flourished in past centuries, kind of vengeance. Summons thousand gods for aid their vengeance and protects their loved ones, almost talismanic worship. Through this practice they had wilding power in their household, keep the tradition of male line and so their daughter-in-laws. No matter what, how a brilliant educated daughter-in-law was, she was a dead meat in front of sadistic her mother-in-law’s bully, torched on generations. It was a cycle of vengeful stress release magic potion, grantor of emblematic rituals and apprenticeship of tradition, then the daughter-in-law become a mother-in-law the venerated sadistic tradition keep carried on a sacred order as if they were warrior keepers of the tradition. It was called virtue! Eventually paid off their apprenticeship made them prime of domicile doyenne. The cycle went on … The survival of civilizations...