Responce to "Kitchen of Meaning"

In the "Kitchen of Meaning" by Roland Barthes reading is a symbol for analyzing with all you senses. The text becomes everything you encounter in life "imgages, gesture, behavior" of the world around us (B,Roland). Its how we analyze things to see wether they appear more complex then our eyes see. We give objects value when we use it to symbolize more then its general purpose. The man who invented the door created as access way to one room from another or even outside.He didn't mean for it to symbolize privacy,closure, or new beginnings. A door opens and closes but it has nothing to do with new offerings or experiences brought into my life, not physically atleast.
He shows us how things that are natural to others isn't neccessarily natural. You can easily defend that saying what's natural to you isn't natural to me. Its natural for me to draw, natural for you to teach. My natural isn't your natural or even the general society or enviromental natural relatively speaking. Everything is given significance to be natural to some one or place. It can also be means to something else. This scarf reminds me of a time, this time reminds me of a lesson, reminds of a person, who bought me this very scarf. Everythings becomes interchangable with little thought so it can flow os seem to flow naturally. If you take away the words remind me it will no longer have anything to do with eachother; thus becoming a scarf, a person, an experience, a lesson. We give the object meaning. (Meaning also meaning "Signification") that " becomes the mode of thought of the modern world".

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