Social OBLIGATIONS and Education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s text reflects many of my views on society. The "Humanization of animals" is, in my opinion, one of the worst tragedies to occur to the animal kingdom ever. What we earned according to his text brought us nothing but shackles: we are enslaved by our "possessions", while, as we were driven by our instincts, our only possessions were our needs.

This is a picture of my cousin doing the thing she hates the most, studying.

One of the most dreaded things ever: Education.

The education system in today’s society deprives us our childhood. My little cousin has the right to go and play in a park throughout her whole childhood, but her parents were "obliged" to put her in a uniform at the age of 3… This took away her childhood and replaced it with 4 walls, oppressive rules, bells to tell her when to eat, when to sleep, when to poop, when to play, and when to study.

An all 3-year-old army is not right. We have all become blobs, with no apparent differences between us. I personally never memorise people’s name, because they are all alike. might as well replace names with numbers. Oh wait, that’s what we do in schools… 

We are all slaves to the education system. Justice isn’t depriving kids of their childhoods, but it is in "their" interest to have a fully built army of 18 year olds who are brainwashed and believe that you cannot achieve anything if you do not have the proper education and are not well trained to become a doctor, a lawyer, an economist, or a CEO of some bullshit enterprise.

We are all slaves to "Social Obligations". We obey without talking back because "they" convinced us that they want what’s good for us, but they don't. As Jean-Jcques Rousseau said:"L’homme naît bon, chest la société qui le corrompt" which roughly translates to "Man is born good, it’s society that corrupts him".

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "The Social Contract". Shifting Narratives. Zane S. Sino, Lina Bioghlu-Karkanawi, Dorota Fleszar, Najla Jarkas, Emma Moughabghab, Jennifer M. Nish, Rima Rantisi, Abir Ward. Beirut: Educart (Middle East), 2015. Print.