How do you become all you can be when there are others around you working to keep you a virtual infant?
How do you become an adult when other want to infantilise you and societal groups actually want you to remain with the intellect and emotions of a child?
I wonder how often you have been told that "you should do this" or "you shouldn't do that". Perhaps you have heard a clamour for "something to be done" about this problem or that issue. The latest and greatest band wagon of causes that "all right thinking people must support".
I'll guess that this has happened to you many times, perhaps hundreds of times.
Most recently the "something must be done brigade" have decided that tobacco can only be sold in plain packaging and must be kept from view in shops. Now they move on to alcohol and attempt to do the same.
"It's for your own good" they say. Sounding like the nannying parent addressing their wayward child. Which in many ways they are.
I have found again and again, that if you treat a person like a child they will start to behave like a child. This of course reinforces the drivers of the person doing the nannying and they can then say "I told you so".
The state does, charities do it, schools do it, workplaces do it, social groups often do it. Why? Because it is a source of power, it's the parental high, the "I know better than you how it should be" response.
And mostly it comes from people who have barely had an original thought in their life. But by telling you how you should behave they have a sense of power and unwarranted significance. Telling other people what to do means they do not need to look inward at their own inadequacies. It saves them a lot of personal turmoil.
So we we have people telling what to eat, what not to smoke, what not to drink when not to drive your car and why you should pay more (to them) for the privilege of just being alive.
You can try and defeat them with logic and smart arguments but this is like debating with a fool. You do yourself no service by debating with someone who has not thought through their own position. Such a debate becomes a shouting match that ends somewhere near "because I say so!"
For each clever fool you defeat with your devastating logic, two more will replace them because, they have money (mainly yours that they took from you as taxes) and they have "the consensus" and heaven forbid that any human being should try to argue against "the consensus". There is no shortage of useful idiots available.
So whether you want to deny man-made global warming, wear a cross at work, drink 3 pints of beer a night, eat red meat, argue that the state makes no sense or just do things your own way...you're screwed.
They only answer I have is, withdraw, learn for yourself from many varied sources. Take nothing on trust, check every assertion, assume that if you are asked/told to do something there is an agenda running. In this way you have a chance to grow. In this way you take a step towards self actualization. In this way you can be prepared for when the useful idiots do their best to take from you what you have created and worked for.
Withdraw from the clamour, reflect on life as it is for you and decide to be the person you want to be not the person others expect you to be. You may also like to read Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell for more insights.
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