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03-24-2018, 02:47 PM
What should I say... Let me try to summarize your wall of text first:
1. Growing up in life and going through education fixates your traits and personalities to suit a roughly unchanging, non-creative society structure
2. 1. causes unhappiness because this prohibits human to find true self
3. Therefore you have to find true self by being creative and listen to passive self, and to stray from mainstream media (as of your example), but it probably extends to mainstream society opinions.
4. Then you will be happy.
Okay... I'll instead present a clip of Metal Gear Solid:
I'll explain in much more precise terms than the video suggests.
1. Education is a progress that both inserts societal norms to individuals and alters the perspective to fit into society when the individuals are deemed eligible to participate in the society.
2a. True self is only a concept that is built on the experience of an individual. You, me, everyone have no right to define a singular goal that leads to an unified happiness
(I know it's against religion, but religion stresses on a common goal which I suggest is not necessarily bound to societal norms. And compared to societal norms religion issues are petty)
2b. Pyramid of Maslow is one of models that can explain the motives of an individual. I suggest to achieve such "true happiness" is heavily dependent on how to achieve self-actualization. I am not sure if you are trying to relate "Self-Actualization" with "Independence of Society norms", and if so this is a fallacy introduced by your own experience.
3. "Listening to your passive self" does not necessarily mean you can achieve higher level of happiness or even improve your understanding of either yourself of society. As I said human ego is built based on owned experience. This reassurance of goal has a side-effect of destabilizing your mental stance, which in turn destabilizes your societal status because to maintain at a committed societal place, the ego often has to alter its rules to fit into society by masking a list of lesser needs. Without proper counseling, reflecting inner desires will possibly put the individual at a haphazard position.
To strengthen this point, human minds are fluid and even the term "true happiness" can change over time. Giving an individual that "abandoning a plan because the commitment is demanding is better than working through the plan" is dangerous and inhibiting development of the mind.
4. The society, including education, is a massive feedback system that promotes the participation of the society in specific ways, which includes using currencies and positions to promote behavior that protects the health of society. Creativity must definitely not be considered as something placed against society. The society instead adheres different human needs inside it, and promotes whichever creative products that may enhance the functioning of society.
For example, a commercial product can be more well-recognized with proper advertisement, and advertisement requires creativity devoted to stage a product in appealing way to the public. In the other end anarchic material are legally prohibited in most countries. Although the media of creative material are different, they obviously are working on opposite direction, one assisting the society by helping cash flow because it promotes a product, and another inhibiting the society by inducing chaos to the government.
Self goals are therefore, by education bound to the society. Although it cannot be said self goals are fixated to help the society exist, society encompasses more than self goals, it also takes a great scope of needs including physiological and mental needs. To achieve "happiness" is an abstract thing, because human has need for large variety of matter, it cannot be concluded into a single sentence that "Self-actualization is the absolute best way to achieve true happiness". In fact this sentence is wrong because humans have the right to measure the necessity of their different desires, as result the society often have a large choice of answers that may satisfy portions of their needs and it is wrong to blindly state that "personal choice is better than choices give by society".
1. Growing up in life and going through education fixates your traits and personalities to suit a roughly unchanging, non-creative society structure
2. 1. causes unhappiness because this prohibits human to find true self
3. Therefore you have to find true self by being creative and listen to passive self, and to stray from mainstream media (as of your example), but it probably extends to mainstream society opinions.
4. Then you will be happy.
Okay... I'll instead present a clip of Metal Gear Solid:
I'll explain in much more precise terms than the video suggests.
1. Education is a progress that both inserts societal norms to individuals and alters the perspective to fit into society when the individuals are deemed eligible to participate in the society.
2a. True self is only a concept that is built on the experience of an individual. You, me, everyone have no right to define a singular goal that leads to an unified happiness
(I know it's against religion, but religion stresses on a common goal which I suggest is not necessarily bound to societal norms. And compared to societal norms religion issues are petty)
2b. Pyramid of Maslow is one of models that can explain the motives of an individual. I suggest to achieve such "true happiness" is heavily dependent on how to achieve self-actualization. I am not sure if you are trying to relate "Self-Actualization" with "Independence of Society norms", and if so this is a fallacy introduced by your own experience.
3. "Listening to your passive self" does not necessarily mean you can achieve higher level of happiness or even improve your understanding of either yourself of society. As I said human ego is built based on owned experience. This reassurance of goal has a side-effect of destabilizing your mental stance, which in turn destabilizes your societal status because to maintain at a committed societal place, the ego often has to alter its rules to fit into society by masking a list of lesser needs. Without proper counseling, reflecting inner desires will possibly put the individual at a haphazard position.
To strengthen this point, human minds are fluid and even the term "true happiness" can change over time. Giving an individual that "abandoning a plan because the commitment is demanding is better than working through the plan" is dangerous and inhibiting development of the mind.
4. The society, including education, is a massive feedback system that promotes the participation of the society in specific ways, which includes using currencies and positions to promote behavior that protects the health of society. Creativity must definitely not be considered as something placed against society. The society instead adheres different human needs inside it, and promotes whichever creative products that may enhance the functioning of society.
For example, a commercial product can be more well-recognized with proper advertisement, and advertisement requires creativity devoted to stage a product in appealing way to the public. In the other end anarchic material are legally prohibited in most countries. Although the media of creative material are different, they obviously are working on opposite direction, one assisting the society by helping cash flow because it promotes a product, and another inhibiting the society by inducing chaos to the government.
Self goals are therefore, by education bound to the society. Although it cannot be said self goals are fixated to help the society exist, society encompasses more than self goals, it also takes a great scope of needs including physiological and mental needs. To achieve "happiness" is an abstract thing, because human has need for large variety of matter, it cannot be concluded into a single sentence that "Self-actualization is the absolute best way to achieve true happiness". In fact this sentence is wrong because humans have the right to measure the necessity of their different desires, as result the society often have a large choice of answers that may satisfy portions of their needs and it is wrong to blindly state that "personal choice is better than choices give by society".