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Originally posted by pba:
On Coming to Terms with Society
By Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D.
Every human being is required to make a choice; to be controlled by society or else to rebel against it…… to allow one’s self to have become a slave of the powers that be or to strike back.
http://www.ichblog.eu/content/view/290/2/
I was planning another short book on this, but the only part that makes any sense is that we are in Turbulent times Like the 1960's were turbulent times. The internet has made a difference. It is now possible to PROTEST action of government, or SUPPORT actions of government by e mail...in 1969 this was barely possible for anyone.
pba, your comment that everyone is required to make a choice is not realistic. The society is what surrounds us all. You are allowed to accept, reject, support, resist, or surrender to the society. But you are not required to do anything. As far as being controlled or rebeling you are allowed to choose, and risk nothing by being controlled, and very much by rebelling. It is also possible to resist parts of the construct, support parts of the construct, and ignore parts of the construct. It is not a dichotomy of being acepting or rebelling. It's a broad, nebulously defined joining and seperating that is a lifelong interaction between the individual and the Society, and between the individual and the parts of society he chooses to interact with.