Ark-wired Tastes

  Is ignorance really bliss or is knowledge too hard a responsibility to bear?  Is ignorance really bliss or is it a  narrative to keep people in their place, a means to quell resistance or better yet, stop it before it even starts? Is there such a thing as being too woke? And if there is, what is the metric of weighing wokeness, why is it the right and only metric that we should go by? Individuals who are so different yet constrained by some objective rule on how to navigate life. Limited to a certain way of life. Quite the irony, don't you think? The thing with questioning existing societal systems of structure is you realize how proximal they are to your person. Not only do you notice general oppressive systemic trends and the classical patriarchal norms ingrained in pretty much everything but you also notice that they are portrayed in the very same songs you like to get down to and the films you binge watch. Could this be a mere coincidence? I think not. Music is appe...

 Ark-wired Tastes As a yapper, I'd say having a blog feels golden. It's synonymous to the experience of a kid in a candy store. So welcome to my space. This is a very informal space, where we get away from how fast-paced life can be. You get to listen to me yap about my life and the experiences that come with it. This is me basically documenting my twenties. I hope you love it here, because I do!  For the first blog I thought why not get down to how the name of the blog came up. For starters, I just wanted to sound cool, okay? And I kind of do, lol. Ark-wired tastes comes from the word 'acquired' See where I'm going with this? It's like a homophone. But even besides that I tend to think that most of the experiences we hold dear to us are highly shaped by the community that surrounds us. This got me thinking as to whether we have things that we can call our very own. If you've been on TikTok long enough (read if you doom scroll enough) you've probably see...