Learning to stare

Susan Sontag talks about the impossibility of pictures to be imbued with significance if we look at them out of a political context.
The message that particular pictures try to transmit, and the reality they plasm are highly charged with a meaning that does not arise from them, but from the outside world they capture.
I understand that what she is trying to explain is that nothing escapes politics or ideology.
Since we born, (if u have born in the same part of the world as I did, not meaning Spain but anywhere in what we call Western developed societies) we perceived and interiorice the meaning the world through images as much as words.
We construct our identity around reflection of "us" opposed to reflections of "the other", we learn beauty and build desire, we dream of lands where we'll probably never set foot in and we sollow the pill of reality that certain publications and organizations make us believe in.
The past is illustrated so vividly that we have the feeling we lived there once. The present is constantly changing, and we forget to live in it as we are constantly preoccupied with freezing the moment with a digital gaze that makes us claim that we were there. No proof, no certainty, not reality, no existence.
And this is the modern stress of being and looking and appropriate a multiplicity of spaces where we want to be at the same time. But Impossible, despite we have the means to reduce it to more comprehensible terms, still remains impossible.
We are allowed to play with the organization of the world and choose what we want to consume before going to bed. That's what many understand for freedom nowadays. Quite reductive and simple understanding of the term, but rather acceptable if you want to be a conformist.
Or we can learn, which is always more challenging. I mean, learn to look with our own eyes. It takes a great effort and many disappointments, but it is worthy. We might not scape this world that some built and designed for us, but we can deconstruct it at our wish by simply putting a question mark at the end of every statement formal authorities do.
I guess that the way we look at things is as important as the way things "are". If there is a ultimate meaning lying under everything with a form under the sun, we should question it before taking it for granted. We should try to read its soul, just for fun, just for once, and challenge the authorship of authors to find some truth before it gets killed for good.