Post 10

In order to meaningfully grow one must attain relative independence from cultural pressures and demands. At a certain point in one's life one must leave behind or overcome the limitations of traditions and doctrines, of established knowledge. One must reach a point where they do not simply parrot and embody the immediate and prevalent teachings of their surrounding environments.

Throughout our lives we are told by almost every teaching institution how the world is and how we should approach and view the world. Such teachings are most often charged with insipid domination-oriented ideologies that want the majority of people to be submissive, to submit to the demands of the dominant cultural paradigm. This has been the case, primarily, in every culture and every teaching institution in history.

The word independence is here used to designate the state whereby one has loosened the constraints placed upon us by all traditions and doctrines, where one's thoughts and actions blossom and flourish creatively and spontaneously, where innovative ideas and ways of perceiving the world come forth and develop positively and meaningfully.