We also discussed yesterday the correlation between infantile tendencies and the structure of people's everyday lives. Are our "infantile tendencies" to question our purpose and functions of the world suppressed in adulthood by social circumstances? If a person's potential is stifled by the consumer culture we are bound to live by, what is the outlook for future generations? I personally know a woman who I would classify a victim in this situation. She is a "happy menial worker" stuck in the confines of economic and social constraints, in which she gauges happiness relative to the system of our perverted culture. Her and her husband each work a minimum of 40 hours a week and they make decent wages. They also have a young child. She is happy in every respect, given she is able to purchase goods and services to satisfy her and her family's needs. She has very rarely expressed any true interest in advancing; citing she can live a good life with her current situation. Is she a pawn in the cyclical wheel of a consumer oriented working dependent society?
Would a person who desires betterment or personal expansion, but is hindered by the very forces they attempt to overcome (finances, societal pressures, etc.) be classified by this? What if they said "I am not happy"- are they void of this concept no longer naïve to the constraints but lacking the ability to apply themselves appropriately?
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