No, I Don't Get It

[poliphilo]

You grow up in a repressive, low church, stupid-headed society. You're smart enough to hate it but you can't help internalizing the values and beliefs and you don't have whatever it takes to shake 'em off- even after you've moved to a society that would encourage you in the struggle. Decades later you're still acting on stupid-headed beliefs that are unworthy of your mind. You're capable of reading books that would disabuse you of them (you've got a degree, dammit!) but you choose not to. Why? What is it you like about your chains?

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

This reminds me of a half remembered quote from an Ellis Peters novel in which a free character has been made unfree by abuse of Norman law and one of the characters, while sympathetic to his plight says something like 'it's the way he rattles his chains and reminds you that he isn't free.'

Sadly, qualifications don't necessarily provide wit or common sense. :o/

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Show me a belief and my immediate response is to look it all over for flaws.