Are we brainwashed?

Since kindergarten, in every class we have had, we have commenced by listening to the teacher tell us what to do. So what do we do when a different situation is thrown at us? Starting our sociology class with utter silence was this situation. There was no teacher telling us what to do. We did not know what to do. But why? Why do we not know how to react to a situation like this? As some would see it, it is because we have been brainwashed. As we have gotten older, we have learned to cooperate with the norms of our society. Our society and everyone in it has molded our idea of normal since we were kids. Now, when we are put into a new situation, we do not know how to react. We have been "brainwashed" to live in the presence of noise, and that silence is "akward". Here is an example. I was at a lunch table with a couple of your friends and four our five people I did not know. My friends went to buy lunch and I was alone with these people. Becasue we have never seen each other before we did not know what to talk about so there was silence. Now, we felt akward or weird. The only reason we feel like this is becasue we have been brainwashed to think that silence is akward. What are some other situations where this occurs? Why do we give into these norms instead of breaking out of our everyday preconceptions?

Who am I

Hi, my name is Connor and I am a huge fan of abbreviating things. Hence the name of my blog. Its supposed to sound like... Just Bin your Cs. It it short for just bustin your chops. It's a saying that I picked up from my best friend's father. When I say it to many of my friends they get a kick out of it because it is either a very unused term or just very outdated. That is just one example of how i like to abbreviate things. Some of the things I do outside of school include playing in a rock band. Me and three other students have been together for four years now and are now consistently getting paying gigs. I also participate in almost every IM sport that my school offers. The biggest influences in my life are my friends and my parents. I am with one of those groups pretty much twenty four seven so I suppose it makes sense. I do not have any specific goals really, I guess just to succeed, but that is very broad. I cannot really think of anything specific though so right now I am just doing what I have to do and I am going to see where that takes me.