It is interesting thinking about all the factors that ‘creates’ us in society. They’ve always been there, in one form or another, and more or less pointed out which main road we should choose in life. I mean, when we get born there’s our parents, and maybe siblings, that already made their mind up about what’s generally right and wrong and from that perspective they decide that this should also be right, or wrong, for us. Maybe the choice of pass this knowledge on to the kid is indirect, but still, the child will get influenced by his or her parents.
Then we start kindergarten, or such, followed by school where there is another ‘older’ human being that teaches us right from wrong. Throughout our early years in life, into our teens we are surrounded by people who are supposed to teach us about life, about the society we were born into and about being a human on planet Earth.
Clearly we need someone to look up to, to gain our knowledge about life – or at least the life they’ve lived – to be able to choose a path for ourselves and make up our own mind and decide what our life is really all about.
When eventually growing up, we’re supposed to work for the state – which has provided us with education, health care and so on – and be a happy, tax paying citizen…
I was reading my course book (chapter 8 Mind Politics in Kingdom J, Government and Politics in Britain) when starting to think how ‘scary’ in one sense life is. However we twist and wherever we turn, there’s always an authority in some kind of power structure, hierarchy, around the corner (whether it’s your mum or dad or your boss at work) who are able to express their opinion freely and make an impact on you. Some kind of power that almost decides to regulate you before you even make your own mind…
Even more so, we’ve got the media who day after day throws ideas, concepts and so on upon us to take in, make up our mind about and finally decide whether or not to include that piece of knowledge/information/crap in our life.
All these different parts of society do build up our life… Whether we want it or not… It’s always there and there’s not really very much we can do about it… Other than be who we are and do our best to follow our own path in life… Whatever that might be…?
Mads
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In suppose it is part of growing up to realise that by means of power each of us creates (and is responsible for) creating society, or having an influence on that - and that we can't just leave it to 'the grown ups' to make the rules. Political freedom is not always a popular thing, because of the responsibilities. The french philosopher JP Sartre famously said 'mankind is condemned to be fee'. This to my mine is the basis of contemporary ethics and morality - persons in the absence of god being willing to take full responsiblity for their actions (or inactions).
I meant - 'condemned to be free'
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