You’ve heard the story, now here are forty-two seconds of evidence. Fleas will only jump as high as the lid that was on their lives even after the cap was removed. Forever, and also to their offspring, they will just jump only as high as the lid used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBfniZuko3g
Several weeks ago we met a married couple that spent ten years in a third world country. The population of that country was huge, but the people there would never rise up and challenge the dictatorship they were under, even though if they wanted to, they would have the physical numbers.
The reason?
These people were trained, drilled, disciplined, and abused if they tried to think for themselves, all of this from their early ages and the first moments of cognition.
Even still, some of these people have become very skilled in the processes they have learned. However if you throw in a ‘why’ into their mix, they are at a loss. They have learned to process by ritual, by rote, by the system, but they were and are forbidden to think or inject their ideas into that process.
This dictatorship government has effectively put a lid on these people.
Growing up in Western Canada, I find it almost impossible to imagine such a world until… until I consider some of the lids in my own life.
I have lived with socioeconomic, educational, and most disappointedly of all, religious lids.
The process to the fresh air has been ominous, but I love it up here, and I am learning to breathe again.
