Introduction
We are living in a complex world. In order to feel control over the world, we constantly organize and categorize incoming information. As a consequence out of it, we create ideas about how the world should look like. Think about Christian Church creating the belief about sexual desire as morally wrong or the fashion world having a major influence on our ideal body image. Overtime these ideas gained so much power that they became the ‘norm’. You could see them as the building blocks of our society.
All these norms read together like a manual of life, rules about how we should live, a so-called hidden script. This hidden script is constantly reproduced and performed, in what we call the theatre of society, without us even noticing it. We are not aware that we reproduce scripts that no longer fits into the current zeitgeist. Nevertheless, we keep on judging the world based on these scripts for a sense of control and a feeling of safety. By doing this we create outcasts, people who don’t fit into our normative framework. But have we not all felt what it's like to be that fish? To have the feeling that we are not understood and that we are judged?
That's why it's time for a change. Let’s take a critical look at our current script and let’s rewrite it!