Is it just me, or does the dub lifestyle encourage astounding degrees of laziness? We're expected to sit quietly at the meetings and be spoon feed repititious information without thinking for ourselves. Dubs are discouraged from making any decisions without the counsel or approval of the society. They're told not to set their sights on an long term goals outside of field service or bethel, discouraged from participating in sports, studying for college or devoting any significant amount of time to mental and artistic disciplines. Anything that takes time away from meetins and field service is automatically bad.
Even though pioneering takes up incredible amounts of time, its usually not that hard, just repetitious, and doesn't require much creativity or constructive thinking. I've known young pioneers from some congregations who did little else except go out in field service and watch TV. Whenever you'd try to get their opinion on something like government or anything important, the response is always "why worry about it? Jehovah's kingdom will come soon and sort everything out."
I know that for myself, growing up as a dub has made it difficult to focus, and whenever I try to devote time to work or study I find it hard to remain on task, almost as if some part of my mind is subtly discouraging me from trying too hard in 'non-theocratic work'. Its a habit I'm trying to break. Of course, this could just be me and the influence of western society, but still...