You weren't there anso how do you know? How do you know it wasn't a result of her parents pushing her to get straight A's and discouraging any outside interests?
You so sure in your assumption without being objective.
lol who said anything about objectivity?
if you just listen to what the core of her message is, you shouldnt have such a hard time seeing the truth in it.
yes, as i stated in the last reply to you, her parents played a role in pushing her to get straight A's because they also were taught to think that sending their kids to school all day long, 5 days a week to be trained to THINK is really education and not indoctrination.
In what ways, and by who? I was never told in school that just getting straight A's was my ticket to a happy life. Most of the teachers I had just wanted to make sure we learned something.
getting the A's was only the proof of your succeeding in being educated. It is the education we were given that we were told would be our ticket to an easy life.
oh yeah, we were also taught what a life consists of also.
to be frank, i think your trouble in seeing what is being said here lies in your still swimming in your own indoctrinated values and ideas.
you can explain it as whatever, but until you really check and find out which thoughts that you think are actually yours, and which thoughts our founded on an idea of "who i am" and "what life is" then i dont think you will have the capacity to understand what is being conveyed here.
I think the idea of being financially successful equaling happiness has more to do with human emotion and how we compare ourselves to those around us. Also our scope of the world. Back in the day, you had people being content with what they had in relation to what their neighbors had, and their town was their life. Now you have television and instant internet access, so we're constantly comparing ourselves to movie stars, athletes, models, etc.
you can think what you want about why we equate financial success with happiness but the truth is "money" and the value of it is transient, "success" and what it means is transient, the value we give "success" is transient.
None of these things are founded on absolute values. So why do we take them to be founded in the one reality.
why are we not taught anything else?
i have nothing against the schools or teachers, but i do have a problem with idiots preaching bullshit and calling it "gold" to vulnerable minds.
yes, back in the day values were different, just as todays values arent static.
the problem here is that nobody is taught to think outside the box.
i dont know what kind of school u went to on what planet, but the fact is we are not taught to think for ourselves. We are not taught to question what we are being taught. We are taught to memorize data and spit them out on command so we can be utilized as a gear in this machine and lack the ability to question who runs the machine or how and why its being ran.
Which is interesting because she speaks about being successful in contradiction to her being successful. She's just mad she wasn't successful in something else. Note she says, how the kids doodling in class instead of taking notes grow up to become great artists.
Either way she's implying success in a certain field is where fulfillment lies.
no she isnt mad that she wasnt successful in something else, she is mad that she, as others, were only taught to view success in one way.
The A students are praised, while those who question the status quo or question the need to do homework are instead told to be quiet and held back year after year until they comply.
she talked about the kids doodling in class not because she wishes she was an artist, but instead she is saying "those kids who did not follow the rules and rather than pay attention in class were doing their own thing such as doodling, have found their calling in the future, while i, only know how to pass tests and follow orders. Ask me to survive on my own and since i have no capacity to think outside the box or follow my own desires, i will roll over and die.
Exactly. She doesn't want to be a corporate drone, and I'm assuming she doesn't want to flip burgers either . She could have been a GREAT, artist, musician, explorer, writer, etc.
i said that thing about not finding me in mcdonalds because that was the big scare that we were always reminded of growing up. Im not sure about you but many times "working at mcdonalds" was equated with "not being successful and happy".
again, i dont know what planet u were eductated on.
She defines herself by her career.
she, and we define ourselves by our careers because we are not taught to do otherwise.
we are not allowed to have our OWN thoughts if they go against the status quo.
Do you know her or go the school that she went to to make such a definite statement?
no i dont know her, but i have stepped outside the bounds of the indoctrination that i myself was in, only to find that i still replaced some ideas that were not mine, for more ideas that were not mine.
i can break that down if you want and i will.
ideas that we have about things, such as "society" or "education" are founded on more ideas that allow such ideas to be "valued ideas".
if you even follow those second layer of ideas you will find that they are standing on even more ideas, so on n so forth until you trace all of your ideas to ONE ROOT IDEA, and that is "the idea of me"
what you take yourself to be is what you take the world to be.
your relation with the world is really just an expression of an "idea" you have about yourself.
i wish you wouldnt selectively quote what i am saying.
i know i also did that with you in the beginning but as this gets longer and longer i feel like i have already answered some of your inquiries in past replies while you are taking my replies out of context and ask the same question all over again.
yes this is slowly turning into a discussion not about the ideas in the videos, but the ideas those ideas stand on, and this is the natural progression into explaining oneself.
