To what extent does obedience have a negative impact on one’s individuality and imagination?
Amanda Gray
IMAGINATION
‘‘Daydreaming, or visualising, about your goal and what it feels like to have achieved it, allows you to really embed it in your mind, like creating a 'future memory'. (using the right side of the brain) Studies have shown that doing this actually helps create new, neural pathways’’
Contents of my Dissertation
Whatisimagination?
ObedienceandCompliancetoauthorityfigures
Whatisgood/badmedia?
Whatisindividuality?
Wheretofindgoodmediaandresourcesforreprogrammingbeliefs
Theneuroscience/biopsychologyinvolvedinobedienceandimagination
Howtostopconsumingallthenegativity?
Whataregood/badauthorityfiguresliketeachersandparents
The subconscious mind controls 95% of our life and hence when we obey, we do it without consciously understanding the reasons why or questioning if it’ll benefit us.
Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist, argues that ‘school is a replication of the workforce’ to prepare children for the social hierarchy of life. Children are trained to be obedient employees, and this ensures them to be hard workers who think alike, avoiding individuality.
6 companies own (& hence control) most of the mainstream media & together they share 430 billion dollars in the industry
DID YOU KNOW? 01
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Seneca (a stoic): ‘We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow.’ In doing so, we put ourselves in a mental disposition which is incommensurate with the situation we happen to be in truly.
‘The Framework of Discussion’ is the barrier between the truth and the mass that consume the media. Mainstream media outlets must conform to it or are expulsed/ fired as censorship is necessary in world to restore peace
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Self-awareness
isthepathtoupgradingyourlife!
The first step to self-creation is self-consciousness, and not in the insecure sense, but more of a self-aware and conscious state. It is about taking control and being mindful of our behaviours and actions, as well as their long-lasting consequences, affecting our reputation.
Some of my findings + conclusions
On a survey I conducted:
MOST PARTICIPANTS CHOSE 10 ON A SCALE OF 1-10 ABOUT HOW LIKELY TEENAGERS ARE TO BE INFLUENCED BY SOCIAL MEDIA
In an article about parenting I discovered:
CHILDREN RAISED WITH STRICT RULES LACK SELF-ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE TO MAKE DECISIONS
Women vs Men Statistics media rarely covers
'Between 1480 and 1913, Europe’s queens were 27% more likely than its kings to wage war, according to a National Bureau of Economics working paper (paywall).
And like Isabella, queens were also more likely to amass new territory during their reigns, found the paper’s authors, economists Oeindrila Dube and S.P. Harish'
This is a self-development project
Amanda Gray
With the war going on against Russia and Ukraine today in 2023, by ‘calling the war a war, or using the word "invasion" in Russia, you could get arrested. The word ‘war’ is banned under the law. It was implemented as anti-war protests across the country resulted in at least 15,000 people being arrested6’.
The extent to which authority figures in these examples affect one’s individuality and imagination is massive, and demeaning. As soon as one person starts to act differently/ stand up for themselves or does something out of choice, a new regulation is forced upon them, prohibiting said liberation.
6 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-employee-bursts-onto-russian-state-tv-news-to-protest-the-war/
Our brain has limitless storage capacity & has ‘mental playgrounds’ which are rich in new knowledge, concepts and can be further enriched when we perform mind-stretching tasks.
Bad sleeping habits, overeating, basting headphones, a poor social life, lack of sun and physical activity harm your neurons
Neurons in a single person’s brain
Steps to rewire the brain & activate neuroplasticity:
1500 new neurons are generated in the hippocampus everyday
Our brains are neuroplastic meaning the brain's ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural pathways throughout life and in response to experiences we can alter our nervous system’s behaviours, immunity and responses, as well as our beliefs about ourselves and the world to be more positive
-exercise positive words –reading
–mindfulness -organic foods
–meditation –gratitude –positive social interactions –being in nature –video games
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For Further Research
Having completed my project, I think people should look further into the idea of questioning the media and all authority figures in their lives. One should not be so submissive to reject an alternative truth. People lie all the time, and one cannot be so quick to dismiss the possibility of something being censored. Additionally, I encourage people to try positive thinking to enhance a good selfconcept and perspective of this world, to achieving long-term happiness. Materialism won’t help, nor will scrolling relentlessly on a gadget.
Read:
-The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama
-Atomic Habits by James Clear
-1984 and Animal Farm
Listen to:
-Podcasts about self-confidence
-Ted Talks about positive thinking
-Neville Goddard's books explained
