One could argue that there can never be enough freedom on an individual and society basis these days. Yes and no. Young adults enjoy a life of freedom in many areas of their lives.
Not only that they are able to vote freely, speak out loud what they feel or think or choose their life partners liberally with no societal restrictions. With those restrictions I mean, personal interests, talent, sexual orientation and life style choices.
Compared to former generations, this seems like the maximum of individual freedom: To study and do whatever job you like; to follow your passion, not your family obligation; to choose your partner out of love, not society or family duty; to live your life however you feel it is right. Often, it is difficult to measure in our daily lives, how much freedom we have.
There are so many options, opportunities and possibilities. So much to choose from and hence, so much to miss out on. That seems like a luxurious problem for a young generation that has too much to choose from. And that is the case. There is so much freedom that it is sometimes overwhelming. Therefore, we find a generation that is well educated, highly skilled, with various interests and qualifications.
But, the thing is that they are lost. This dead-end-feeling of too many choices and the fear to choose the wrong path is somehow also intrinsic in this generation. Thus, we have friends going on world tours, volunteering in Ghana or meditating in Tibet. Maybe this is the drawback of too much freedom, where we grow up without pre-determined paths of our life due to no restrictions existing of which work to do, who to marry and what life style to have due to obligation and duty.
It is this freedom, to life without all the restrictions, which actually scares us and sometimes lets us feel a special form of being lost. Ways to deal with uncertainty, a high degree of freedom and the development of decision-making abilities is something that maybe is underdeveloped and hence leads to personal indetermination and a state of mind of being lost. But I think it is a good idea that we take a moment, appreciate the freedom we are born into and just make some major choices, go down one path and see where it leads us.
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Listen to the episode here or find us on a podcast platform of your choice, Apple podcast , Spotify , Acast , Stitcher , Libsyn , etc. Technology did change the landscape indeed. So, like for any other important change Gutenberg was a leap as well , humans need to learn to deal with the new tools. The breath of urgency is the global aspect and the rapidity of the reach.
Therefore, one could argue that the learning needs to happen quickly as well. Oppression has not only the disadvantage to postpone the learning, it increases the pressure to fight the oppression. Of course, it takes us away from the power of swarmship that offer solutions to address any problem we are confronted to like global warming, sexism, racism, pollution, hunger, etc. Yet, their obscene hold on power bear the root of dystopia and can not in all humanity be acceptted.
Consequently, the only solution ahead is offer, globally, the opportunity to train all of course especially young humans to use this new tool. What type of training? Well no need to reinvent the wheel.
Any change and diversity as well as the human behavior that comes with them. This training has a few names but I prefer cross-culture training, defining culture in the broad sense that it fundamentally has, including gender, age, religious, professional, culture yes, race, etc differences.
The earliest we start, the more we give ourselves the chance to avoid great sufferings, or maybe worse. When are we invest into what has become one of the most urgent needs to enable our humane side to lead us?
Not A, not B, not a compromise between A or B!!!! What we need is C, build together. Cross-culture provide the tools to engage in this conversation that will indeed never reach a final point because once we have C , we will meet D and will work on E. Thank you for posting this interview. Additional summary reading recommendations would be most welcome. What we envision as training and open thought is definitely influenced by our own cultural world views. We limit our debates by focusing on West versus East and how we regard leadership.
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