Yes, I'm fat - What next?
When I think of how societies were formed, I can imagine human beings trying to stay together in harmony for survival, fulfillment of partnership, exchanging ideas etc. At some point, when we stopped surviving and started thriving (or plundering) on the earth, we took all of this for granted, elevating the purpose of the group to match human intellect. Now that diverse set of human beings started living together, they established frameworks to define the normal. It was told that these rules are for the greater good and if we are all to live together, we will need to abide them. Sounds great, right? A set of people forming their own theories of what is normal for a majority of the population, thereby ensuring that those who did not fit into that could be easily branded different, outcasts, outlaws, take your pick. As with any knowledge bank, these frameworks went through various revisions thanks to people interpreting them differently and as of 2019, we have quite a lot of the...