In Class: everything's an argument

My initial connotation to the word "argument" is always one of a combative nature. When you think of arguing, you think of two sides defending their own belief and/or attacking the other's. However, while this is still an argument, the book enlightened me to the subtler arguments I encounter subconsciously everyday.

From stop signs to t-shirts, everyone and everything is making some sort of "argument" to their nature. Stop signs argue for your obedience to halt, unless you want to make a big crashing fool of yourself. The city that put those stop signs there in the first place are making an argument for their lean towards safety and regulation in the community. Fashion is one way every individual makes an argument of themselves through expression. A tattered, sleepy-headed-looking person will make the argument for themselves of being laid back and uncaring versus someone who always dresses sharply and cleanly. These arguments are made whether we think of them or not in a nature that defends any comments about oneself or nature while expressing that same nature to those around you.

The other day when I was driving down the highway, I began to realize many arguments, especially in the way the people care for and/or decorate their cars. A mini-van with "World's Best Mom" decals versus a pick-up truck with spinners and blazing skulls says two quite different things about the people driving their cars and their the lives they lead. It's up to them to make arguments otherwise. Restaurants also make arguments in the names, decor, location, and overall appearance and advertisement of their place, arguing for their customers to decide to eat there or not according to appeal.

It is all quite interesting. It definitely made me more aware.