Avengers and Free Will
Oct. 11th, 2012 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ericadawn16"Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."
It was July when we saw The Avengers at Muvico. Afterwards, we were walking through International Plaza when my mom admitted...what made Loki so convincing was that he was right about a lot of things...especially free will.
My mom was raised Methodist in a small town in Indiana in the 50s and 60s which means that her parents were ULTRA conservative. There was no need to decide things for yourself because it was already decided...men couldn't have long hair, no one could divorce, no one could have premarital sex, no one should fraternize with those who aren't also Christians aka Protestant and so on and so on.
It is simpler. My mom has admitted this. When people tell you how to think, you don't have all those problems of thinking for yourself.
Look at all the self-help books so people can tell us how to fix our lives...the diet books to tell us how to eat...the news channels to tell us how to vote. Society even insists on us being restrained and telling us what to do. If we're single, everyone says we should date. If we're dating, everyone says to marry. If you marry, everyone says to buy a house and/or have children. More and more shackles even if some of us are quite happy to add them but the point of it is that society likes to have rules for everyone to follow. Humans do crave an order and rule to their lives and are more than happy to impose it on others in order to "help" them.
It was July when we saw The Avengers at Muvico. Afterwards, we were walking through International Plaza when my mom admitted...what made Loki so convincing was that he was right about a lot of things...especially free will.
My mom was raised Methodist in a small town in Indiana in the 50s and 60s which means that her parents were ULTRA conservative. There was no need to decide things for yourself because it was already decided...men couldn't have long hair, no one could divorce, no one could have premarital sex, no one should fraternize with those who aren't also Christians aka Protestant and so on and so on.
It is simpler. My mom has admitted this. When people tell you how to think, you don't have all those problems of thinking for yourself.
Look at all the self-help books so people can tell us how to fix our lives...the diet books to tell us how to eat...the news channels to tell us how to vote. Society even insists on us being restrained and telling us what to do. If we're single, everyone says we should date. If we're dating, everyone says to marry. If you marry, everyone says to buy a house and/or have children. More and more shackles even if some of us are quite happy to add them but the point of it is that society likes to have rules for everyone to follow. Humans do crave an order and rule to their lives and are more than happy to impose it on others in order to "help" them.
