The Movie Mannequins

Political Anatomy is the idea that in certain situations, the contortions of our bodies are controlled to better focus us on a task at hand. It's easy how this applies in the classroom, with desks, bending the body up and foward, and the positiong of said desks in neat rows, but where does it apply outside of learning institutions? Oddly enough i found my answer at the mall.

Ever gone the the movie theatres? First, they make you stand in line, and shuffle one by one up to this little booth where a worker is standing, practically forced to keep eyes front and hands on the counters. After we get our tickets, we have to stand in another line so that they can check our tickets and make sure we dont move ourselves into the wrong viewing room. After we finally get to purchase our snacks and drinks thatwill almost certainly fit into our cup-holders, we sit down in angled chairs, designed to sit us up straight, eyes toward the screen. The armrests are almost never adjustable, encouraging you to now lay across multiple seats, and the seats are easily gotten to by theater workers, busily checking tickets at rater R flicks. Its amazing how that even when we are aiming to entertain ourselves, we still happen to be restricted physically, one way or another. Whether it be rollercoasters, kayaks, or museums, we almost always have a set of rules that both limits and concentrates or efforts to entertain ourselves. I believe the purpose of political anatomy may be interlaced with the idea of equality. We queue in lines, sit in specified seats, and are unable to touch certain things because to do so would be to take away from the experience of another individual. Perhaps political anatomy serves other purposes as well, but it certainly exists for the sake of sharing.