You'll Always Be Love's Great Martyr

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."      

                                          - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How true! Is it fair to say that 50% of the time we chain ourselves in? Perhaps it's actually a total of 100% seeing as man makes every possible item that might chain us down. And perhaps it's a terrible struggle to oppose the chains of our time from completely burying  us in lies of who we are.
Now this quote came from my grade 12 Ideologies social textbook. Who knew that someone who lived way before I was born could speak to exactly what we are susceptible to in today's society. That is the profanity and propaganda that makes up our very surroundings. It seems to me that we do a whole lot of talking and not enough fixing, considering this was an issue back in 1712. Or just maybe, we do too much fixing that result in a dangerous short-term numbness of reality?
Will we ever learn?
Are these "chains" necessary in allowing us to choose what we believe?
It's truly a shame that these are the very things that hold us back from reaching our full potential sooner...or at all.
It is an even greater loss that it's too complicated to tackle this issue in a crunch of time. Our 'quick-fix' society waits for nobody or nothing that can't be ordered through a drive-thru and slapped together in a matter of minutes.


We are chained in by the fear of giving up our comfort should we truly live selflessly.