Rationality vs The Herd
The first chapter on storytelling.. it's so true. We are so deluded by stories we live according to it judge our lives to it, with labels of institutions, of beliefs, or ranks, of ideologies, and purpose of existence, all man-created, fake... like why is it so important to graduate from BUET? why is not being a BCS cader or government employee mean you will have no position in our society? These are just beliefs that were created and implanted in our minds and we accepted them without any form of questioning and can't even imagine questioning.
There is an important concept in psychology called mass manipulation, herd mentality. it's people who do not take reasoned or calculated and conscious decisions for themselves. In fact they do only 0.003% of time, and all the rest of time they just follow the herd, the group. This phenomenon is mostly common in liberal, woke, neo-"feminist" groups. You could ask them to provide reason for some of their extreme stances, they can't. The women there joined the group simply cuz they saw some post online and it triggered them emotionally. It's how advertisements also work.
If all things are just stories and man made concepts not even necessarily based on rationality, then shouldn't it first of all be for us to decide whether we want to follow them or not? or do we want to create our own beliefs and dreams and giving meaning to things, to our life the way we want to?
Decide for yourself who you will agree with, what you want to believe in. otherwise, someone else will take that decision for you and live your life instead of letting you live it. we should seriously break away from these things, sit down together, separate what's an actual law of nature (like man must die) and what's just social mental constructs that we have falsely accepted as unbreakable laws, and think what we want, what we want to do, where we want to go with our lives.