This week in my tragic life, we watched a TED Talk by Dan Ariely. This was a very interesting one, and one of my favorites that we have watched so far, I think. Ariely talked about how we may not actually be in control of our decisions as much as we think we are. He used many examples through illusions, different types of forms, and more. One of the examples that he used that I thought was interesting was the table illusion. There are two tables, one that looks longer then the other, but in reality, they are the same size. Even after showing that the tables have the same length, our brains still don 't see it as the tables having the same length. This was so interesting to me, because when I actually thought about it, I realized that he was right. Even after he put the two lines on top of each other, once they went back to their own tables, it went back to looking like one table was longer than the other. Honestly, I didn't even want to think about it anymore after that. It was too crazy to even comprehend. I feel like this can easily be applied to Oedipus. Within the play, Oedipus was never really in control of his decisions. He thought he wasn't going to be following the terrible fate, and neither did Jocasta when she found him, not even knowing it was her son. Through the power of fate, they were brought together without them even thinking about it. That's some wild stuff, man. They get so focused on trying to avoid the fate, that they don't even realize that they are already following it perfectly.
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