Blind Obedience

The problems that blind obedience or blind conformity can create are beyond one can imagine. The worse thing is that our society and the human race is so completely absorbed in it and most people don't even realize it.

First of all, what is blind obedience? Blind obedience is conforming to the norm without even understanding why you are doing so. Blind obedience is doing things for the sake of doing it just because. Blind obedience is being too afraid of thinking for yourself.

Tonnes of examples exist in every nook and cranny of society. People make their children go to school just because. Children must get straight As or they will be doomed just because. An office job, preferably a straight accounting or marketing job, is a better ambition just because. Couples in love must get married and have children just because.

At the end of the day, are these really our reasons to live? Are our ambitions that pathetic? Just because everyone else is doing it?

If my goal in life is only to be an accountant, I would rather die.

Unless, here's the twist, I have my reasons for being an accountant. Unless I know exactly why I want to be an accountant, perhaps because I love figures or because I have a strong drive to continue a family business, then the goal is no longer pathetic. It's just this very slight twist that makes a world of difference, understanding why you are doing something, as opposed to doing it just because everyone else thinks you should do it.

Some families fuck themselves up because of blind obedience. Newly married couples rush to make babies just because it is totally conventional to do so, without actually considering whether they are ready to have children, or whether they are even conditioned to have children. When the babies finally pop out and start growing, and things get a little rough around the edges, it may be a little too late for couples to realize they made a mistake. Some couples sadly fuck their families up because they couldn't really handle it.

In my opinion, blind obedience can be equated to the removal of one's brain and eyes, for it stupidifies people and make them lose their abilities to see their actual situation for itself.



That is also the meaning behind my tattoo, the androgynous face with its eyeballs gouged out and brains spilling out of its head. Needless to say, it's on my ass because I am vehemently against it, and it can jolly well be right next to my asshole.