Colours
One thing about accountancy is that it is socially constructed, there is nothing tangible about accounting methods and every technique has been chosen from a huge list by someone who thought their way was better than everyone else’s.
This spawned heaps of thinking about what is real in this world and what is actually just that way because somebody made it that way.
So in my procrastination yesterday I listened to this podcast on colours and I came to the realisation that colours are socially constructed!
Like everything about colour had been a little funny to me, especially the idea of colour blindness. But after listening to this it made sense. I love that in so many cultures (Ancient Greece, 19th Century Japan) the difference between Green and Blue was hardly recognised.
Making the most definite, almost universally agreed upon idea of colour, a social construct. It is that way because someone told us so.
So if something so concrete as colour is actually a product of society then what else is?
Strikee 