Response to "The Kitchen of Meaning" by Roland Barthes

“The kitchen of meaning” by Roland Barthes gives some very interesting thoughts, on how we have all this complexes signs in which we interpret in different ways. In the beginning of his essay he begins to list our every day uses of objects. With that he shows how people can use those objects to figure your personal lifestyles even behaviors. Which can be called readings; the readings are based on how we interpret things that we see. Implied by our cultures being used as secondary sources of information in which we hold, not knowing. We simply just judge in ways that the media wants us to. Barthes gives an example of a Congolese rebels being found with machine guns in there hands, and the first thoughts that we encounter are negative. But we never think more deeply into the message, for every message has another meaning. Not thinking of the opposite point of view. Like how american weapons are used across the globe. As for texts, Barthes states that every text has something written in between the lines. We just have to be able to take that text an digest it, being able to reflect and think outside of the box rather then let our society control our judgment.