Saturday, January 30, 2010

Handcuffed in the Matrix


A blank page and a cursor blinking, good lines to start off with.I just scrolled back and corrected the spelling of "gud" to "good", what was I trying to achieve? Perfection!, naah I'm not one of those ambitious and motivated individuals, I wanted to be precise or rather follow the corrrect path. Why do I want to do that? Yes, hard to accept but I was motivated by one of the basic needs of mankind.The need of being accepted and appreciated by the society.
Fear is an extension of this need. To be more precise, an average person is motivated by fear, in this case social acceptability drives an average individual to follow and achieve excellence in what is being done in th respective society.
I want to emphasise on the average man, because an average person is often mistaken to be a commoner. But what people dont realise is that every great individual is average in many ways and it is the "social perception" that makes him above average.Also what an average person doesn't realise is that he is below average in many ways, again via "social perception".
"Social perception" is indeed a strong infact the strongest force in the human society. It can cause a Rennaisance, can dethrone monarchs,can free countries and what is most ironical, disperse the truth like magic through the wand.
"Social perception" formed by people, who constitute a society.A Society is important for the weak,because it protects it and exploits it simultaneously."There is no free lunch."

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