Does society serve us, or do we serve society?<\/p>\n
In a conversation with a female friend she mentioned how she had been brought up to be submissive.\u00a0 I felt an inexplicable pleasure at this and since I believe inexplicable deserves explanation, it set me to thinking.\u00a0 The rather shame filled results of those thoughts appear below.<\/p>\n
There are powerful feelings embedded in words like submissive.\u00a0 Powerful things I have realized are not all the good we\u2019re raised to believe they are.\u00a0 As a boy, I was trained to not show emotion, to \u201cbe strong\u201d.<\/p>\n
What a crock of nonsense!<\/p>\n
Being strong bears no relationship whatsoever to our ability to suppress emotion.\u00a0 Yet our loving parents are so conned by an uncaring, manipulative society that they raise their kids to fit neatly into predefined stereotypical roles.\u00a0 Roles that religion reinforces to the benefit of a system structured to churn out obedient, unthinking thralls who will marry, and raise another generation of obedient, unthinking thralls.<\/p>\n
Society makes me sick.<\/p>\n
So why did my hearing a woman admit to being submissive make me feel good?\u00a0 Because just like her, I\u2019ve been raised in a stereotypic fashion.\u00a0 My parents loved me, yet they also raised me to believe men should be dominant and women submissive.\u00a0 That is wrong.<\/p>\n
It is incredibly difficult to break the mold in which we were shaped. If we’re to achieve a system where people actually matter more than their ability to serve society till they’re worn out…\u00a0 If we’re to achieve a family that serves for more than churning out another generation for corporate mills or uncaring governments to use and discard…\u00a0 If we’re to achieve something that matters then we must break the mold in which our characters where formed.<\/p>\n
We must teach our children that what lies in their hearts is theirs to decide, not ours to determine.\u00a0 We must teach our children that they are valued, that they are loved, and that they are free. We must teach them to question, not to obey.\u00a0 We must teach them that they are free to chart a course outside of the serfdom society needs to keep its skewed systems functioning.\u00a0 They must learn that they are free to chart a course to happiness, wherever and with whomever they find it.\u00a0 We must teach them that their happiness cannot be at the expense of others, and that if they are to matter then they must treat everyone they meet as also mattering.<\/p>\n
Both you and I have shackles we must break.\u00a0 Those shackles bind us into a society of extreme disparity where the vast majority serve, and the miniscule minority do not.\u00a0 Those shackles demand that we train our children to obedience over thought.\u00a0 Those shackles are what make us favor the normal over the unique.\u00a0 Those shackles make us value inanimate material objects over living beings.\u00a0 Those shackles bind us, and in return they grant us nothing but an illusion of safety.\u00a0 Those shackles don’t even attempt to grant us an illusion of dignity.<\/p>\n
I am no man\u2019s servant.\u00a0 Are you?<\/p>\n
Instead of clinging to an illusion of freedom let us cling instead to the hope of an understanding love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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