How To Think For Yourself | Escape Mental Slavery | Ayodeji Awosika

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I’m listening to “Redemption Song,” this morning and that line just hit me like a ton of bricks. He doesn’t say something benign like self-doubt. He even takes it up a notch from Steven Pressfield’s “Resistance.”

Mental slavery.

How often do you feel as if your thoughts are not your own? I’m guessing all the time. See, it’s not so easy to free your mind because you’ve genuinely been conditioned not to.

If you know even the slightest about me you know that I’m a huge believer that almost everything in society serves the purpose of making you mentally weak, dependent, helpless, and powerless to change. And it seems like society is doing a pretty good job.

I mean, be really honest with yourself here. How free do you feel? Do you go about your day doing what you want to do or what you think you have to do? Are you the type of person who marches to the beat of their own drummer or dances to puppet strings?

Only you know the answer. But if you are someone who feels trapped, enslaved, and inside of a mental prison that doesn’t let you live the life you want, only you can free yourself.

I bounce back and forth on this constantly. I want to be accepting that some people just don’t have big dreams. They’re fine doing the gig they’re doing. They’re content. I don’t need to push these people to be bold, daring, and great, because they don’t want to be. Fine.

But this line about mental slavery got me thinking.

What if many people in society are experiencing some sort of Stockholm syndrome? Stockholm syndrome means you start to identify with your captor.

There have even been people who kidnap children and let them roam free throughout the day because the kids will actually just come back home.

Often, when people talk about slavery in America, they’ll bring up the fact that the slaves outnumbered the masters and plantation workers. Why didn’t they just revolt? Well, a great many did. But, the ones who didn’t were conditioned to stay. They began to identify and accept being slaves.

This isn’t a negative judgment on them at all. Conditioning, brainwashing, mind-f***ing — these things are very powerful. If they weren’t there’d be no Jim Jones or Scientology. Am I being a little bit hyperbolic and dramatic when I suggest many people are society’s captives?

Maybe. But maybe I’m right.

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