Now To What...? How We Teach People

When We Speak Of Choice, What We Mean Is The Ability To Exercise Control Over Ourselves And Our Environment. In Order To Choose, We Must First Perceive That Control Is Possible.

So It Was Constantly Going Back And Forth Between These Two Cultures That Kept Raising The Question, Well, How Important Is Personal Freedom? And I Think That Has Always Been Of Interest To Me.

It's Easy To Assume People Are Conforming When We Witness Them All Choosing The Same Option, But When We Choose That Very Option Ourselves, We Have No Shortage Of Perfectly Good Reasons For Why We Just Happen To Be Doing The Same Thing As Those Other People; They Mindlessly Conform, But We Mindfully Choose. This Doesn't Mean That We're All Conformists In Denial. It Means That We Regularly Fail To Recognize That Others' Thoughts And Behaviors Are Just As Complex And Varied As Our Own. Rather Than Being Alone In A Crowd Of Sheep, We're All Individuals In Sheep's Clothing.

I Went Home And They Seemed... My Parents Seemed Normal. They Didn't Seem To Feel Like Somehow They Had Been Victims Of Some Nazi Camp Or Something.

What's Interesting Is That The Way We Go About Finding Our Marriage Partners Today Is Quite Different From The Way It Used To Be In This Culture.