coolbeans, Foucault

I got confused by fox day and wrote about hooks instead of Foucault after looking at the calendar this past Wednesday. After having read Foucault, many things became much more apparent to me. Our society has become so used to being watched, moderated, monitored and controlled that we do not even realize how often this occurs in our daily lives. We are controlled in many different aspects by many different things. We follow a set of legal guidelines that define what is legal and what is illegal. We do this because we have been told that if we stray from what is legal we will be punished. We fear these punishments and do not want to have to face them so we comply with these set laws. However, not everything is controlled by the law. Each part of our lives has laws, not just the government. For those of us who are enrolled in school, we must follow the rules and regulations set by the school. We follow them for the same reasons that we follow laws set by the government; because we need to follow them in order to continue our education. This is another thing that is controlled by our society. In society it is socially acceptable to go on to further education. If we choose to follow a religion, then we also follow the beliefs of the religion and do our best to comply with those beliefs so as not to upset a greater power. Although there is no proof for us that a higher power exists we follow these belief systems because of a fear that if we go against them we will not live a happy after life. We often even find ourselves being controlled by our peers. What the rest of society chooses to deem socially acceptable is often what controls our decisions.