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How our society lies to us
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At some point or another, most of us figure it out. Sometimes it takes years, sometimes decades. Somewhere in there, a trigger goes off. Bam!
It’s just not true, what they say. Someone made it up. They lied to us.
We don’t have as much “free will” as they said we do
We are raised to believe that we have fully free wills. Obviously, that’s not true. We have “conditional” free wills. We are free to do whatever we want, if…
We can’t just go get the job we want, do the things we want to do during the day, enjoy the time we want with our families. We get the jobs that are available and we do what we have time for.
Reward does not always follow merit
They say that if you work hard enough, things will get better. That’s not always true either. Sometimes we work harder and harder and we keep gazing up to that carrot dangling there.
Really though, things just get better when they get better. Sometimes they get better when we don’t work hard at all. Sometimes it’s all about luck.
Good things sometimes happen to bad people
They say that good things happen to good people. But not always. They were wrong here too. Justice only exists where there are enough eyes. Sometimes people are bad and can hide it. Then people think the bad guys are really good guys.
So then what do we do?
We can’t choose to do most of things we can imagine. Working hard doesn’t always pay off. And being bad is fine so long as you’re not caught.
When do the good guys win? It’s not that I’m some complainy person or something. But I’m also not some robot completely devoid of emotion either. Sometimes it just feels good to vent a little…
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Dereck :: Jul.10.2008 :: Perspectives :: 1 Comment »
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I would say this is the exception, not the rule.
Without getting too philosophical about free will, it’s true that you can’t completely control your environment, so I would agree you don’t fully have free will, but I think if you hard hard enough you can and will change your environment. We aren’t perfect beings, so you can’t expect a perfect society, but it’s pretty damn good.