Personality and individuality in modern society

There is an opinion that earlier the authorities tried to erase the individuality of people. The USSR and communist China during the reign are especially strongly accused Mao Zedong.

There is some truth in these attacks. But now, when we live in a free open society, to what extent have we managed to free ourselves from the imposed values ​​and the way of life in general? Have we become completely free people with a distinct personality?

What do you think - your thoughts, desires and life itself develop exclusively under your own control, or do you live under the dictation of how our ancestors lived?

Every day we hear and read about individuality in fashion, which manifests itself in clothing, hobbies, tastes and other aspects of life. Now it is not fashionable to live like everyone else, it is important to be unique, to think and live completely in your own way, and on the contrary - adhering to old traditions is ridiculous and even stupid.

Individuality is great, because we all received free will, different talents and character from nature. Only in fact, a tiny number of people are able to live on the basis of their own reason and control their desires.

Scrolling through Instagram, we can see a great many of the same type of pages. It seems that people are living the same life. In different countries, we can see photographs of approximately the same food, the same laptops and smartphones with a bitten apple.

The notorious cats flicker on the pages of girls from Saransk, Moscow, New York, regardless of their status and level of education. The cat can be seen in the hands of a vegetable shop assistant and on the bed of a famous Japanese top model, who is at the forefront of the list of successful models.

Passion for travel, seemingly a very interesting developmental occupation, but try to ask these travelers about their impressions and knowledge gained in travel. The main details of the stories are the same, as if they were recorded in the minds of people as a carbon copy.

People make a lot of effort, spend all their vital energy in order to meet the requirements of modern society. We take out a loan to buy an expensive car, and then spend a large part of our income on parking and maintaining that car.

We buy cat food at a price much higher than the cost of selected meat and spend a lot of our time and energy on many other things that are not really necessary or even necessary. But we believe that it is impossible to live without this, because if we give up one thing, the other, we will look strange in the eyes of our relatives, friends and society. We must meet the expectations of others!

Further, you can enumerate and enumerate a standard set of people's lives. Opportunities are different for everyone, but in fact, the life of the majority is devoid of individuality. Therefore, you should not lie to yourself and others about your own uniqueness and special inner world. Most of us do not even have our own opinion and serious thoughts, we are 99% living under dictation.

Only it is not the power and some black lord who dictates to us, but business, celebrities and marketers, for whom it is very important to turn all people of the earth into an obedient controlled population, although most of them themselves do not have their own thoughts and desires, but are obedient slaves of the system of modern values ...

Only when doctors report a fatal diagnosis does a person think about his own life, and sometimes realizes that he did not live by his own desires.

Although in many cases everything is so neglected that even a dying person tries to meet the requirements of society and asks his family to organize his funeral in the best possible way, this is the last opportunity to impress everyone.