Response to "The Kitchen of Meaning" by Roland Barthes from The Semiotic challenge

We are trained as humans to automatically have a connotation to everything we see, hear, or read. Even though, majority of things aren't always what meets the eye judgement always plays a part in the development or process of "reading" someone as Barthes refers to it. The way someone is perceived could be merely by a status symbol, their appearance, or a subtle action without the person that is making the perception even knowing them or being within close distance to them to at least get a feel for who they are. It's just as simple to use those things to upload a whole profile on someone by just "reading" them. This reminds me of the movie "Date Night" starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey. The two actors play a married couple where they go on a routine date night where they play a game to look at a couple at a table and "read" them to develop a lifestyle they see fit by dissecting in between the lines. A message within something will always be directly telling you something where there is obviously a main point trying to be made, but then there's the part that forces you to go in depth and pull apart and find morals, ideas, and significance. In "The Kitchen of Meaning" Barthes states, "To decipher the world's signs always means to struggle with a certain innocence of objects" (Barthes 158). You see something and you don't want to question it because it is what it is and you know that, so the need to associate it with more is suppressed. Furthermore taking the English language for granted by shortening it and not using it as it should in the standard form because people are comfortable with the naturalness of the language that the true complexity in the standard English is not embraced as it should be. However, you notice it when comparing it to another language that English is not as simple as people that it comes natural to make it seem. Therefore, the message that is truly trying to be pushed through may not always be received. Signs in throughout the world some simplistic some complex, all leading to the development of ideas, morals, beliefs, and systems despite who may agree and who may not, whether they are wrong or right.