Is freedom the opposite of what society pressures us into?

Question

I got to thinking about what society seems to push upon us: Have a family, have a house...society seems to want to tie us down. Am I way off base on this? Am I viewed as odd because I viewed this from outside of "the norm"?

Answer 1

If you take your cue from society to any degree you're in for a huge disappointment. Nothing wrong with any of those things, but, remember, it is a way of locking you into the greater structure. Today especially rapacity, not the family unit is the thing you want to be aware of.

Answer 2

Nearly EVERY culture and society is built upon the institution of 'family'. It is the bedrock of life. Why, if you didn't have mother and father, who would get you through the first 3 years of life?? You';d just die.

Now, the family unit is useful, since it continues the species.

Family needs food, shelter and clothing. (Depending upon where you live, more or less of each thing.)

Now, in the Western world we have corrupted the whole thing with greed and lust. Sigh. And other 'developing' societies are copying us. this too is sad.

Your job and mine is to avoid the rapacious quality of Walmart and the Dow Jones, and live truly and honestly before God and mankind.

Answer 3

do you have a family?, do you have a house? are u feel pressured on doing so?... society is made up by individuals, it is the base off society. where as society can only amplified what the each individual chose, not pressure them

strong in numbers doesn't always means wright!!

Answer 4

I think that another person could say..."I am poor and can not afford to have a family or a house. I am oppressed. I wish I had the freedom of those who have money."

Everything is relative, especially freedom.

Answer 5

If a sign at the top of a cliff says don't jump off, are you freer if you jump than you are if you don't? Second question: would you be proud that you jumped?

The joke is that if everyone broke the "rules" there would be no freedom.