insanity of conformity part 3

Once again quoting Freud´s ideals, it is Nurse Ratched that controls our history, and serves as the fake information and brain wash that the public follows in order to maintain a structured society in place. She turns society into robots who all work the same and include the same mechanic tools in their minds. When a robot dysfunctions by showing individuality, she fixes it, blaming that its his mind that doesn’t work and thus she has to lobotomize him, until it cant cause any more trouble. I agree with Freud’s theory of the ¨It¨ being our civilization and the ¨Self¨ being us; the it controlling the way we grow up, the people we meet, and the way we behave, but I don’t agree that if one is to break from that structured way of acting, that we will instantly be framed as mad. This theory has poisoned the minds of the civilians and so much that they are already so structured that they too use segregation and fear to continue this legacy of conformity.

I used Freud’s book, Civilization and Its Discontents to prove a point: we are products of our past and history, this history binds us into becoming nothing else but clones to the rest of humanity. Then with Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest I explained how some people like Kesey himself believe that our civilization is trapping us too much into conformity and lack of freedom. I enjoyed how this novel uses characters to symbolize the battle between the sane and insane; showing us that its more probable for civilization as a whole to be insane than for an individual whom although is different is very sane. This book taught me that its fear of acceptance that oppresses us from expressing ourselves with our own behavior and that we have to stand up for those rights (sometimes even sacrificing ourselves to get lobotomized, but for the greater good of humanity). Its senseless to act against individual behaviors, such as lust, pride, homosexuality, kindness, and truth just because society thinks of them as moral flaws, it’s a braver action to accept most of these and know that it might not be a matter of morality but of nature.