A short spoken reflection on how human minds implicitly learn networks of social beliefs during childhood, illustrated by the example of how society teaches associations about breasts (e.g., ‘bigger is better’). The speaker calls this internalized pattern the ‘Breast Rulebook’ and emphasizes that the same cognitive process builds similar belief networks across many topics without explicit instruction.
All of us learn when we're young, we just learn women have breasts. That's just part of being alive. You just learn that. And there's behind the scenes things that take place in the human mind. Every single human mind does the same things where once it's kind of got hobbies, so once it learns women have breasts, it just likes to see relationships in the opposite direction. So then it learns breasts are womanly. And so that's just the way our minds work. And as you grow up in a society where breasts are feminine icons or where they hold a lot of meaning, then your mind starts learning things like bigger breasts are better. So then it sees that relationship in reverse and it learns that smaller breasts maybe aren't as good. And this, it moves into this giant network of beliefs and it can be huge in our mind. And it doesn't just do this with breasts, it does it with everything. But before you know it, without anyone sitting you down and teaching you these things you've just learned, I call it the Breast Rulebook.
