it has been said that because of “frailties” of the senses,
we receive inperfect and inprecise information from our
senses which leads us to make faulty judgements/decisions…
but I suggest something else is at work…
recall earlier, I brought up the point of observational bias…
now let us connect these two points…
we are born, we, from various sources, learn many things…
these things we learn are both useful, the stove is hot, and many things
that are more along the lines of indoctrination… these are the myths,
habits, prejudices and superstitions we learn as children…
America is the greatest country on earth… there is a god…
capitalism is the greatest system ever and the only system…
now we learn these myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions
and we see the world through them…these myths influence how we see
the world… if we are taught to only see hate in the world, that is all
we will look for and that is all we will find, we will not see anything else but hate…
this is the observational bias I refer to…the teachings of youth, these myths
and otherwise, prevent us from clearly seeing the world…it is not just
a failure of senses that prevent us from getting a clear understanding of the
world but our childhood indoctrination… the myths and habits and prejudices
and superstitions that we were taught… prevent us from getting a clear
picture of the world and thus prevents us from getting a clear and concise
plan of action going from the past to the future…our myths and habits and
prejudices and superstitions prevent us from making a clear plan of action going
into the future, because we are chained to a specific and wrong
idea of who we are and what are our possibilities…
to become free of our chains means to become free of the indoctrination
of myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions of our youth…
the training of our parents and schools and church and state…
all meant to indoctrinate us with a certain viewpoint meant to make
us “good” citizens and more importantly, “good” workers… for that is the
current function of education… to make people good workers and pliable
citizens…whether we become good human beings is not important and
not relevant to modern education and modern indoctrination… we
are meant to have a certain function and that is to be unquestioning
citizens and workers… “don’t rock the boat” is the modern
lesson we learn as children… go with the flow and do what you are told…
that is some of the chains we are taught in childhood…
and because we are so formed, we cannot truly see clearly, that is not
because of failure of our senses but a failure of our becoming free of the
chains of childhood… we cannot see clearly until we free ourselves of
our myths and habits and prejudices and superstitions of the indoctrination
of our childhood…
want to become fully human… break the chains of your indoctrination…
want to become a functional human being, break the chains…
want to be free… break the chains…
Kropotkin