We don’t need anyone to tell us what to do. Not Savonarola, not the Medici. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose- whatever you think is true- that makes us human...There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the way. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else.
This problem of “I want to teach you how to do something by yourself—to start with, do what I say because I say so” seems to apply to teaching children / non-rational people to be more rational, teaching unhappy / non-biologically-broken depressed people (i.e. broken world view, not causatively abnormal brain chemistry) to be happier, as well as dependent people to be more independent.
Taking better control of yourself, starting by giving more control to someone else to get you past the initial obstable that you can’t get past and onto the proverbial ladder that you can then continue cimbing yourself.
It looks like a more legitimate problem than your dismissal gives it credit for.
(Assassin’s Creed II, Ezio Auditore’s speech)
Okay, I’ll choose my own way.
What else does Auditore say I should do?
This problem of “I want to teach you how to do something by yourself—to start with, do what I say because I say so” seems to apply to teaching children / non-rational people to be more rational, teaching unhappy / non-biologically-broken depressed people (i.e. broken world view, not causatively abnormal brain chemistry) to be happier, as well as dependent people to be more independent.
Taking better control of yourself, starting by giving more control to someone else to get you past the initial obstable that you can’t get past and onto the proverbial ladder that you can then continue cimbing yourself.
It looks like a more legitimate problem than your dismissal gives it credit for.
Why do you care? You should not follow it anyways. ;)