The obsession with defying societal constraits, the idealizing of the false dichotomoy of the rat-race and the freedom from it, this pseudo-intellectual wishy-washy philosophical approach to the battle between freedom and responsibility, whether it occurs within a single man, an entire country, or an economical revolution, is a simplification, or perhaps rather a complexification, of both the human spirit and the nature of being.
This idea that as society evolves technologically, that we are doomed to entrapment, is the reflection of the individual's failure to find meaning and purpose within his everday struggle unto an abstract entity that he decides to anthropomorphize and wage war against, as though it were some enemy he could overcome by throwing his stones of foolish idealogy. This same man would find no meaning or purpose were he to be removed from the society which he belongs to, fights against, and knowingly but hates himself for perpetuating.
As society evolves, man is expected to evolve as well, to find his way of forging a path in a more narrow and difficult fashion.
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