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You are quite lucky to live in a time and place where humans are treated well and without the shackling notion of productivity. But it has less to do with your
by jasim 12y ago
You are quite lucky to live in a time and place where humans are treated well and without the shackling notion of productivity. But it has less to do with your personal agency and more to do with your luck. People can be made responsible for their situation only so much. Individuals are powerless before the collective idea of normalcy of the society they live in.
Steve Bruce puts its nicely in his book "Sociology: A Very Short Introduction" - None of us personally created the social institutions that shape our lives; we were born into them. The roles that structure our behaviour and encapsulate the expectations that others will have of us preceded our arrival and will endure (no doubt slightly modified) after we depart. Reality may be socially constructed, but, taken in its totality, it is not the work of any nameable individual and it certainly has little or nothing to do with any one of us.
- jokoon 12y ago> You are quite lucky to live in a time and place where humans are treated well and without the shackling notion of productivity. You say that, but when you're poor and society talks you down by arguing that you only get what you deserves, it feels like you're cheating and behaving like a stubborn thug. At the end of the day, I put so much pressure on me, I ended up believing I was mentally ill, and it enabled all sort of self confidence issues and distorted views on society. > Reality may be socially constructed, but, taken in its totality, it is not the work of any nameable individual and it certainly has little or nothing to do with any one of us. I still have trouble projecting my lonely self in that big scheme that is human society. This whole civilization seems scary and often too full of things I'm scared of.