Here in the US we have a variety of subcultures and most of them derive
from some competition for limited resources (whether real or imagined)
largely influenced by the socioeconomic strata but also including group
identity (class, religion, sexuality, age, ethnicity, political
orientation, etc).
It is possible to become like a slave to the roles we play through
attachment to our values, ritualized behavior and institutionalized
ideation of our self and the world we live in. The reduction to slavery
I think involves corruption within our faculty of assessment where the
healthy mind reasons flexibly and creatively toward wisdom and
fulfillment of a virtuous life (even if simple by most standards) but is
reduced to programmed responses by institutionalizing influences. That
is as an automaton or robotic.
One difficult matter that Molly and a few others have been mentioning
lately is the influence, and intoxicating delusion of power provided by
domination. If you look across the spectrum of abuse from the vilest
sacks of crap to the excelsior and prestigious cruel overlords of reason
you may find them both motivated by similar hungers. The ends justify
the means and self-satisfaction comes at the cost of those underfoot who
are the means to their ends. That understanding and thousands of images
strike the anger out of one when the times come, like humble being
branded onto their psyche (or heart). That is what I mean if you hear me
say ignorance is a privilege. Also, the faculty of assessment is mostly
subconscious and domination is the most greatly rewarded in society and
the animal kingdom. The trick is to make intentions and motivations a
conscious choice so that we may behave as, and be 'human'.
IMO
On 5/30/2010 8:05 PM, kdephil wrote:
I want to start off saying I am new here at minds eye. I don't have a
title nor do i desire one,
(philosopher ,student, wannabe) it all doesn't matter.
I remember when I was younger I wanted to fit in with the kids at
school.
I tried the baggy pants and and using curse words like everyone else
was doing at middle school,
but it never stick (I was socially retarded for that sort of thing).
Now that i have gotten wiser I think this
things were foolish now.
so my questions are:
1) The way that society(except the family) programs a human, is it a
type of brain washing ?
ex. Mostly in the U.S some woman will try and get a boob job and
thinks its ok, while most woman from east
Asia will think the idea is disgusting.
(sorry for any grammar errors)
