Control and escape

The title seems a little bit off. I did not want to write ctrl and esc and chase away the few readers I still have. Because my topics are not for the people who don't use ctrl esc etc.

Our life is a continuous struggle to take control of our life and/or stop others from controlling it. 

 

As children, we resented how our parents controlled our lives. OK, ok, not us - boomers, not people of our generations. We would cry, whine or nag our parents, but it never crossed our tiny minds that we were being controlled.

Our children and all these new generation kids- they  hate being controlled by parents. And we have objurgated our control, not unwillingly. 

We also resent our spouses for controlling our lives. Ask any man - he says with witty humor how his wife controls every thing in his life. So says his wife.

But funny thing is, we do not  resent so much the when government controls us. May be we do not actually realize  the fact completely. 

 

And we certainly do not worry about social media controlling us - we happily propagate whatever semi-truth, post-truth or outright lie which reaches us.

 We are ambivalent about government controlling our social media. Do we want it or not? See, if the government does not control hate speeches and terror plots, how can it protect us from terror attacks? 

 

But on the other hand, unless we are naive, we will realize that, government is not so much worried about hate speech as much as it is worried about its power and how to retain it.

With so much controlling going on, isn't it natural that we would like to escape - at least for some time. 

 

We eat - see no one controls what or when or how much I eat. (Unless I eat some one(Remember the ruler Idi Amin - ruler of Uganda) or their gomata). We eat or drink or watch TV. Just to forget the fact that we have no control over any thing else in our lives. 

So this control and escapism are inversely related. The more control we gain, the less we seek escape mechanism.