[FONT="]The Domestication of Humans[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
[FONT="]We do not choose these beliefs or this reality. They were given to us. They are what we all have been given and it forms our collective reality because we have all been indoctrinated into the same set of beliefs. We agreed to accept the reality we were given. What choice did we have? There were no alternatives offered.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Humans have been domesticated through a process of repetitive reinforcement, through reward and punishment. This system of domestication is no different than how we train a dog or any other domestic animal. Religious and governmental laws reinforce this system of reward and punishment. Break the rules and we are punished. Obey the rules and we are rewarded. [/FONT]
[FONT="]The reward we get is positive attention from our parents, teachers and peers. The attention feels good, so we become addicted to it. We crave more, so we do all we can to get more. We start acting. We start pretending to be someone we are not in order to get attention and soon we become what others expect us to be. But it is not who we are. We become so removed from who we are that we forget who that is. Good dog![/FONT]
[FONT="]The domestication process is so strong that we eventually do not need outside influence to continue the process. We domesticate ourselves. We reward ourselves when we obey the rules and we punish ourselves when we disobey the rules we have been indoctrinated into. And we judge others by how well they adhere to the rules.[/FONT]
[FONT="]This is how we become socially conditioned by society around us to be good citizens. There is no freedom in this, no self-actualization, no self-awareness; just domesticated automatons. Mostly we go through life on automatic pilot, going through the motions without really questioning the validity of what we bought into. To question the law, the belief system, is to put oneself on shaky ground. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Because the system of reward and punishment is based on fear: fear of not being good enough, smart enough and loveable enough, questioning the rules makes us feel uneasy. Even though we may intellectually see there is something wrong with the rules, we have bought into them for so long that they have a strangle hold on our psyche.[/FONT]
[FONT="]If we do manage to change a belief later on in life, there is still a residual impact of the original belief. That is why it is almost impossible to try to change someone else’s beliefs. Arguing is an attempt to change someone else’s belief about some aspect of this “reality”. Rarely, if ever, does anybody change his or her belief even in the face of overwhelming evidence. The program is too strong, too well encrypted.- by me
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