Friday September 18 2009 18 09 2009 06 23 00 What is fear Lacking courage Being unknowledgeable about something Being overwhelmed of the truth and its possibilities Emotional response to uncontrollable or unavoidable situations The unknown Past experience Feeling powerless A learned state of mind What is freedom Ability to do anything Power of own life liberty and love Ability to act however ones desires Will to make own choices Not being oppressed by authority Independence without boundaries Main Argument Social world is made up of ideas that people create embrace and act Inventing the Social World Ingredients Ideas patterns of activity habit upon Social world not an illusion not something we can wish away families schools bands churches government corporations Social institutions names given to patterns of activity involving lots of people encompass shares ideas of how to do things 1 Ideas Guide inspire and justify actions Shape feelings tell us right from wrong Created by humans to solve problems To navigate the world Continuously being developed But ideas created ages ago inform our current beliefs and actions Operate as invisible threads that hold the world together Only when we try to pull away to break from the pattern in some way do we experience the realness the tangible force of the Ideas are maintained through habits Habits are maintained through tools of force such as guns bullets Habits actions that are so subconscious they become normal in our threads 19 imprisonment life auto pilot 18 09 2009 06 23 00 18 09 2009 06 23 00
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