Opression

It seems as if we have all been fooled into thinking that we are free.

At school we had to sit on a desk and when the bell rang, we were finished with class. 

My alarm clock wakes me and I feel anxious till I actually stand up and get ready for the day. 

It seems as if the bell at school and my alarm clock had some power over me. 

Getting a good grade meant that you should get a good future. This is graded by a teacher, that has been taught how to set boundaries and teach in a certain way. He has been taught how to do this by the teaching profession. 

The teaching profession leads up to what is allowed, what should and what should not and which knowledge should be passed on for the good of the whole. 

We go to school for 12 years, we were taught how to talk, that we aren't allowed to use certain words and every time you use these words you get a kick under the butt. 

After a while we cannot really think for ourselves and we could get estranged. 

In the musical The Wall, it beautifully and sadly illustrated oppression, not only by society but also by Pink Floyd's mother. He couldn't even get himself to love a woman anymore. 

I think power structures come from long ago, even thousands of years, shaping the way we talk and what we shouldn't say or think aloud.

There was a guy that lived two thousand years ago that understood this. His name was Plato.

He said that it is almost as if we live in a cave where shadows are projected on a wall in front of us. We see the shadows and think they are real, but it is only the hand puppets of others behind us that casts this shadow. 

I think we should understand these shadows and write secret diaries where we shouldn't censor our thoughts. Like that move 1984.

The odd thing is that a lot of people don't feel oppressed. That might mean that the oppressors have won...