Goldfish Don't See the Bowl

I have for about the last 25 years (I am old!) found some explanation in a phrase of my own: Goldfish Don't See the Bowl.

What I mean by that is: Most of use do not see the systems we are embedded in: economic, civil, legal, religious, class, even (gasp!) gender.

I was so pleased to learn about a speech given by D.F. Wallace, in which he posits: What is water to a fish?

His speech is packaged in a book, and the Amazon people have remarkably brought it to my stoop today. I look forward to reading it.

I would like to assert: I see the bowl I was put in. I'm actively changing my bowl.