The Sky is not Blue
Have you ever wondered if the perceived conception a certain color is truly that color? This idea is perfectly applicable to instill doubt in the seemingly obvious statement that "the sky is blue." Have you ever thought that maybe when you were just a wee child, you were incorrectly taught your colors? Have you ever considered the possibility that your mind was manipulated and molded to believe that the color we know to be “blue” was blue when in fact, it is just as likely that that same color be called red, green, or pink? What makes us all so sure that we have correctly labeled our colors? Is there a color committee out there that spent hours perfectly matching the color with its corresponding name? There is no way to concretely prove that the color we identify as blue is actually blue. As a pre-schooler, one of the main concepts that we, as children, learn is our colors. In that regard, I mean matching what we think to be red as red, green as green, pink as pink, and so on...but why could the color that we see as red not actually be any other name? Children, especially when they are young, have very impressionable minds. In addition, they are naïve and gullible. However, they cannot be to blame for this because they simply have not experienced a number of things. These characteristics make them a prime target of deception. They believe most of the information that adults tell them. For this reason, they adamantly think that “blue” is “blue.” The color they know as “blue” is the same color as the sky. Therefore, from a young age, we associate the two by concluding that the sky is blue. However, that could very well not be the case at all.
posted by SSanders @ 8:51 AM
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