Hard lessons to teach our children I

The world in which we move is no longer the same world we lived as children; not because it changed much, but because we did.

Trough hardships and mistakes, errors and broken hearts, we ended up perceiving the world in a much distinct way we were taught to: to obey and serve to the masters of the farm.

Some of us grew up in industrial mining countries; countries where a great part of the purpose of the social system is to have a capable work force that can operate the cogs of the machines and direct the employees in some way or another, always ready to take orders from an employee, and always ready to comply: individuality is an aberration that must be cleansed, and the natural and logical path to social salvation is to follow the tightly put and closely watched crowd.

Some grew in a country much more different, where the free market signaled a more steep but more rewarding path to social and financial success, and where the machine was even wider; the possibilities were clearly defined, the path to take clearly marked down, and the broader options were presented in a more defined way; despite the options previously presented being quite prevalent, more were available.

Regardless of what kind of system we grew up in, there's a constant in every one of them: we are free as long as we follow the rules and trust the system.

But we no longer can allow ourselves to follow blindly. We no longer can allow ourselves to trust the system. The system has failed us many times over, and will continue to do so. It's the way it was built. It's not human-proof.

But we were not taught that; we were lied to when we were children in almost every single aspect on how society truthfully works. Comfortable lies and hoping shit will not hit the fan too hard to actually kill us was the attitude of our fathers.

But will that  be our own attitude as well?

Will we cross our arms around, wait patiently, raise sheep that will slowly go straight to the wolf's teeth, and hope it won't bite?

Will we accept the farm's design and let the blood of those it deems worthy of spilling be spilt in a senseless war, or a clash with police, with our blind acceptance as things are and are "supposed to be"?

Or will we rather find a way to circumvent that?