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Born In Custody

from The Cracks Start Appearing by Active Minds

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It’s very difficult to be truly free. We’re all, to some extent, trapped within the conventions of the society we’ve grown up in. Its cultural norms become barriers to our freedom of expression and thought, without us being conscious of it.
Some opinions become so much a part of the background culture that we struggle to recognise them as opinions at all – they appear simply as facts. They may be views on economics, or morality, or any one of many other facets of how we’re expected to live - parameters are put in place, and basic assumptions made, which assume that everybody thinks the same on some fundamental issues.
We live in a fucked-up world - where people abuse others; where war is seen as inevitable; where greed is seen as part of our basic nature. To change things we need to dare to dream, and that means we need to try to challenge our inherited cultural norms as much as we can. These things are all just inherited opinions and values. If they don’t work for us, or for the world we want to live in, then we can do things differently. Just because some things are outside of our experiences doesn’t mean they have to be outside of our imagination.

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When you’re born into captivity, and it’s all you’ve ever known, then you can have no real concept that your life is not your own. When you’re born into captivity, you can have no idea at all of the possibilities that exist beyond the prison wall. All our dreams are modified by what we’ve known since we were born. We all grow up restricted by the surrounding cultural norms, and in such circumstances it’s not easy to see that we can escape the prison if we can only find the key. When you’re born into captivity, not even realising you’re confined, living any other way may never cross your mind. When you’re born into captivity you can have no comprehension of what life could be like outside of such detention.

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from The Cracks Start Appearing, released December 19, 2014

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