Shadee Elmasry – The Illusion of Freedom
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The speaker discusses how freedom of choice and "anything in one's life affects everything, including one's choices in their parents' schools, their race, their nationality, their family members, and their job prospects." The choice of one's choices ultimately comes down to their choices in life, whether they believe or disagree with everything.
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We in the West, we always talk about, you know, freedom of choice
and individualism, but you actually make very, very few
choices in your life. Right? You don't choose who your parents are,
you don't choose where you're born, you don't choose your
ethnicity, you don't choose your nationality, your race, your,
where your family members are, you know, there's so many. And then
after growing up, your parents make a lot of choices for you
know, what schools you go to what homes you live in, and then that
affects your social circles, that affects your friends that affects
your job prospects. It affects everything. Really, when you tie
down, your choices in life are really, really very limited. And
your choice in life are ultimately are you going to believe or
disbelieve and are you going to obey or disobey somehow? That's
really what it comes down to. That's really ultimately comes
down to you don't really have any influence in everything on
anything else. You're just part of the system. You're sort of playing
a role in something that's already been laid out for you. And as
you're going through it, there's the choice comes up again and
again. Are you going to obey? Are you going to disagree?