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I’m pretty sure that I have been programmed. By my parents, by my friends, my education, my environment. Change any of those things in a significant way and I
by wrasee 2y ago
I’m pretty sure that I have been programmed. By my parents, by my friends, my education, my environment.
Change any of those things in a significant way and I’m sure I would be a different person now. I love the idea that I am an autonomous agent of my own that exists self evidently outside of those bounds, I just don’t think it’s true.
- somenameforme 2y agoThen humanity today would approximately the same as humanity of its first era. I don't really understand the tendency to deny one's own agency. We were all once teenagers. And one of the first things we do as our brain starts to develop is rebel against the authority of a time. And, for some, that spirit of independence and rebellion never ends.