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Experiments and observations such as those on the obedience to authority, advertising, and other manifestations of media strongly suggest we aren’t as much of our own person as we believe ourselves to be. It is the situations we are in and the people we surround ourselves with that determines how we think and act.
Common argument is of people who partake in counter-culture movements. People such as hipsters, etc. People try to stray from the crowd and end up dissolving themselves into nonconformity.
Milgram Experiment case study suggests people are highly influenced by authority figures.
Celebrities influence our thoughts and actions just as much as authority figures.
You are constantly being marketed to: through advertisements, tv shows, subliminal images, etc.
What does it all mean? Your thoughts aren’t as much your own as they are a culmination of different ideas. Which isn’t necessarily bad….