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One of the things I've been spending some time pondering is power relations and where power resides in the world around me. It kinda strikes me that a lot of people aren't aware when they are in a position to do things, to use that power they have, be it administrative, decision, etc. Or are aware but prefer not to, are scared to do so, or think that using it would be somehow uncout, even if that is their actual job. Half of the lack of change in the world seems to be not because people don't have the power, not because they like the system, but because people fear change.
I've run into some sort of society-wide learned helplessness several times in several contexts, including professionally. Maybe especially professionally. There seems to be some sort of giant personal cliff people need to scale to learn that they can actually do things, of their own volition, without being told to, not picking some options that were presented for them.
I don't think it's fear of change. I've been all over the place in what it actually is. Societal conditioning from school? The fear that people won't like your choice? The fear you'll do it wrong? The fear that if you start making actual decisions you'll suddenly realize how much of your life was wasted before you started doing it? Probably could be any number of problems, like that proverb about every unhappy family being unhappy in its own unique way.
Most of the advice I have gotten on careers has been, "work as hard as possible (or not) but whatever you do, don't rock the boat." To make change, you have to convince people. I don't think anyone here is confident in their ability to convince someone of something they didn't already believe so the feeling should be familiar.Persuasion is a hard skill to learn and not a lot easier to practice.
Perhaps Bane's portrayal in the batman movie was the only way they can imagine being able to carry out this type of change. Perhaps they are just shit at persuasion.
Thats the point. Every villian on tv is "wants to improve things too much" every political speech is about it, half of grade school history is about the dangers of change. That is propaganda we are given so we don't try