Privacy : Part II

Between the 1950's and today, Corporate America refined how it could manipulate a large majority of the population simply with peer pressure.

The side effect was also to erode personal privacy:

If you follow the Jones, then you are the Jones and we know everything about you since you have given up your inner nature to be the Jones.

Now with so many people kicking it out, deciding enough is enough, its time for a simpler life. It almost seems as if following the Jones is a thing of the past. But it's not, the general public to a large degree still follows trends and fashion.

Additionally with large amounts of data about each of us, it becomes easier and easier to target, watch and manipulate smaller sub and splinter groups.

We want our privacy and yet people give up their privacy so easily.

So what is privacy?

In the end privacy is the ability to choose and determine how to live without interference.

This is important: privacy isn't to be left alone, it's the protection to be capable of personally deciding one's very inner nature without interference shifting that inner nature to be something else.

In other words, we all have an inner space, we all shape that inner space from the inside, from our heart to create our form.

When our shape has been forced upon us from the outside rather than the inside, then you have lost your privacy of being true to your nature.

Think about this for a bit. This has profound implications for people who are trying to transform their life. Since when in the process of transformation: you are trying to truly become the shape that gives you joy: working to the reflection of your heart. However, all too many people discover to their dismay they are shaped by others or even trends to be something that doesn't fit their heart.

This is why people who are experiencing Mid life Crisis go away for privacy... so they can listen to their inner voice, so they can shape their life to their nature rather than be molded by others.

Do you hear your heart's song ... or is it overwhelmed by culture / pressure from others?

Taoism as a practice respects privacy since it concentrates on living to heart.

Namaste