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Social conditioning is powerful stuff no doubt. Aside fromlearning to take Ritalin and cram for exams, one thing I did take away fromcollege I thought that was particularly helpful and eye opening is the conceptof social conditioning. The two greatest examples

1. Slavery

2. Indian Genocide

So let’s start with slavery. Slavery has actually been anaccepted practice in almost every society a couple hundreds years ago andbeyond. Everyone had one and it was just normal. But by today’s standards, eventhe remote thought of owning a slave is just ghastly.

Or take Native Americans, studying the events thattranspired a couple hundred years ago, it really isn’t terribly different whatAdolf Hitler was trying to accomplish in WWII. As far as I’m concerned the United Statesis just as Imperialistic as any country out there and we’re just as guilty. Weare solely responsible for the death of millions of Native Americans and quiteliterally, stealing their country away from them and all we do in retributionis eat corn and turkey on Thanksgiving.

In any case, all I’m trying to get across here is the powerof social conditioning.

I think one of the biggest eye opening moments with regardsto pick up was watching Mystery’s video’s and his thoughts on science andanthropology. It really made you question your social conditioning and itreally explained a lot of conflicting thoughts I had in my head and in somesense, really liberated me. So for example, take marriage and monogamy. Ashuman beings, from an evolutionary standpoint, we’re not designed to bemonogamous in the long term, “pair-bonding” (love in laments terms) if youwill, is a chemically triggered process that lasts for roughly 1-2 years, whichmake sense in prehistoric tribal societies. From an efficiency standpoint, thiswould allow a male to maximize the number of surviving offspring he would have.

Anyways, I’m not going to enter a giant philosophical debateon social conditioning, happiness, and human impulse.

Living in Los Angeles for close to a year has been an amazingexperience, especially with the show and everything, but on the same token too,living here in the “superficial” capital of the world has made me realize therereally isn’t much of a difference between what’s considered superficial and aperson acting on their innate human impulses. For example, I love big perkyboobs,  I just do, they’re freakingawesome and I can’t explain it, I just like them. And again, from thescientific perspective it would just make sense, larger breasts yield moreadequate feeding for potential offspring. Yet, if I were to stare at a girlslarge breasts or give a girl I was dating brownie points for having big boobsthat I was dating, suddenly that makes me a pig/superficial/fake. I also lovebeef hotdogs, should I feel superficial/fake for that too? On the opposite endof the spectrum, if a girl dates a guy who’s rich, she’s a gold digger and she isn’tgenuine.

In the end, I feel pretty confident that it’s fair to saythat despite our social conditioning, our primal impulses always kick through,hence why you’ll never see a supermodel that isn’t pampered or an excessivelyrich/powerful man with shortages of women in his life.

So I suppose the question is, in today’s society, doessocial conditioning actually have any merit, is any of it actually true? Or isit there to keep the average American citizen subdued and obedient? Is it wrongfor us to seek our innate human impulses?

Some food for thought I guess…..

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