There are certain things the average person cannot dare to speak, or even think. Though it is a human instinct to have the tendency to discover and be creative, we grow unable to overlook the boundaries that society has set for us. Not many of us are able to see past the norms. Very few have ever wondered of the origins of our morals and why they are so valuable, even fewer are those who dared to share their knowledge with the rest of us. It is partly because society has deemed the individual researchers as anarchist and chaos-seekers, and partly because we have become so afraid of crossing religions’ red lines that we prefer not to look for answers- that is, if we dared to ask them in the first place.
Organized communities have successfully enslaved their members, with very little to no possibility of freedom. Our thoughts, as members of a certain group, are always censored by what we have been taught both consciously and unconsciously, and any attempt to exceed the already-set limits results in a deep feeling of shame, disgrace and guilt. We tend to edit, cover, hide and even delete whatever puts other members in discomfort, just because their discomfort may lead to our own exclusion, though unintended. Societies have succeeded in limiting the freedom of thought just as much as the freedom of expression.
Religiously, I cannot even dare to question the authenticity of the Prophet of Islam. This is not due to my understandably uneducated level of knowledge of the subject, but because it is socially wrong. Historically, I cannot dare to argue the legitimacy of the Sahara, not because of my unawareness of Moroccan history, but because society has taught me that the Sahara cannot be anything but Moroccan. I cannot speak or think (maybe I am afraid to write also) without having to consider the society’s response, which I have to face alone. Individualist members of society do not get to be part of groups of their peers; otherwise, it is a criminal organization in the eyes of the law, supported by the cheering of thousands of unhappy collectivistic members of society who cannot bear to think about change, or people who think change is better.
This kind of slavery is not new to people in power. The conspiracy to keep the members of society in check, in terms of what and how they think, behave, act, and react, is real and has been effective since the first organized civil society was brought to light. The authority has realized that by promising security and safety to their most loyal slaves who are willing to work in packs, and discouraging and discrediting individual behavior to the point where individualists are considered, unjustifiably, criminals, crazy and religiously infidels, they are setting the values by which the members of society live. Anyone who dares to question those values becomes the target of the countless brainwashed social activists and so-called moral officers of the law.
Society has never, and will never, allow the individual to grow and evolve within its borders. It has set the limits to what makes everyone the same in their core- that is, attitude, behavior and thought. Any unconventional “something” that does not fit the values of society nor with where it is headed is unjustifiably overlooked, excluded and disapproved. The members of such society are easily turned moralistic radicals whose arguments are “it is not the norm, it is not the truth, it is not the right thing” and most importantly, “it is not safe”. The individual, no matter what their views are, are now obliged to prove that they are in no way interested in chaos, which ends the discussion of whatever topic they have shed light on. “We are safe here and now”, society says. “It is crazy to look for freedom elsewhere.”
