I think I'll just post what I underlined, and maybe, if anyone is actually interested in this topic, we can go from there... I'm not sure if these excerpts will still make complete sense when taken out of context...
From Chapter 1: Domestication and the Dream of the Planet
"With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else. We try to please Mom and Dad, we try to please the teachers at school, we try to please the church, and so we start acting. We pretend to be what we are not because we are afraid of being rejected. The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.
"All of our normal tendencies are lost in the process of domestication....We rebel because we are defending our freedom.
"The domestication is so strong that at a certain point in our life we no longer need anyone to domesticate us. We don't need Mom or Dad, the school or the church to domesticate us. We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same belief system we were given, and using the same system of punishment and reward. We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system; we reward ourselves when we are the 'good boy' or 'good girl.'"
Any thoughts on this, either positive or negative?
