Society is a conspiracy against the individual?

Question

I came up with this theory when I was 14. I can't remember my argument.

What do you guys think?

Answer 1

I only agree in the idea that your society is programing you to believe things that will only cause you misery. The programing to pursue something outside of yourself in order to get the idea of 'happiness' or 'freedom' from some other idea of 'bondage' is completely created by society in order to force you to keep working for the continuity of that society.

Answer 2

At 14 you were growing and learning discipline. We are an interactive society thus societal. Yet we are individuals with a thought process and control on our lives. The only conspiracy is in the minds of people with a negative concept. The universe is ready to give us what we ask for, good and bad. Might as well get the good stuff. Each day we choose our lives to live. It is up to us to make good choices. Blessings on you.

Answer 3

Perhaps to some degree. Society demands that you fit in, conform, lose your individuality. You are supposed to blend in rather than stand out.

On my suburban street, I am the only single person living with a cat. Every other house is residence to a married couple, 1 or 2 kids & a dog. I'm surrounded. By my age, most people are married. It's as though society puts you on a treadmill: get married, have kids, work 9 to 5, be a good consumer, be a productive member of society. It's hard to be an individual. To be single in your thirties, to be an artist & musician, to work at an unusual job with 12 hour shifts (days & nights), to not conform. To be a little quirky. Society tries to make it uncomfortable for rebels, for those who are a little different, who live on the fringes, who don't fit in to conventional lifestyles & norms.

I never felt the compulsion to get married. I always seem to have a boyfriend (I'm a serial monogamist) but never felt ready to tie the knot. I spent 9 years with someone & still didn't feel ready to marry him. I have a pretty cynical view of marriage since everyone I've ever seen who married was either miserable & staying together out of fear or convenience, or divorced. I do believe in love & waiting for your soulmate. I think too many people get married for the wrong reason (fear of being alone, because all their friends are getting married, because they got pregnant etc). I also have no desire to have children. I never did. Other kids were playing mommy & house & I was playing rockstar & spy. I never had that maternal instinct. Not that I don't love children. They're very cute! But nice to visit not to live with!

It can be tough to be an individual. To risk being different. But it's rewarding to be true to yourself. To be authentic. To admit who you really are.

I am not a 9 to 5 wife & mother. I am an offbeat, shiftwork aspiring artist, singer/songwriter, former actress, poet with no plans to run to the altar & no need to reproduce.

I am still a productive member of society. I just offer something a little different. & the cool thing is, I have met a few other artistic people like myself & become part of a songwriter micro-society.

We are social animals. We all have a need to belong. You are never really alone. There are always other like-minded people out there it's just a matter of finding them when you're surrounded by the "majority". I'd rather be extraordinary than ordinary.

Anyway, I'm rambling! Was this what you meant at all...?

:)

Answer 4

Or you can put in another way: the individual compromises a few things to create a society that assures the individual of survival that includes the next generation and generations to come.

Something in-between would be ideal but history has proven how a few strong individuals in society always manage to manipulate everyone and rule according to selfish goals.

Answer 5

Sounds like you were thinking in terms of self vs others. As a child learning that people can lie and cheat and steal and kill you start to learn not to trust anyone anymore. Its only when we realize that we also cheat, lie, steal, and could possibly kill do we become adults truely. I think conspiracy theorys are great because they make you think and thinking about anything helps give you a better sense of self in some way/s... I think your well on your way to wisdom and enlightenment if you have not already goten there. I wish you the best of luck on your journey to finding self and others and hope that love will always be with you.

Answer 6

Sounds good to me. But I don't know if conspiracy is the right word. Society's baneful influence on the individual seems out in the open and a fait accompli to me.

Answer 7

Society is a conspiracy against the individual and in so being it is its own enemy.


The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.

Answer 8

Society is a conspiracy against the individual only if you make it a conspiracy...sounds like you were rebellious like most teenagers.

Answer 9

In order to fit into the so called society you basically have to fit the mold of everyone else...to fit in basically...the individual walks to the beat of his own drummer and is usually shunned by society as a whole because the butt the norm...

Answer 10

Your thought about society in general is wrong. Society controls us to a certain extent, but we as individuals have a choice how to live our life.