Social Programming Quotes

“Don’t worry, I’m a doctor. ... Besides, whatever I do to you is okay because I’m a doctor. Trust me. Now, on a scale of one to ten, how painful would you say this is?”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“All those ants scurrying about like rats in a maze, going back and forth to the same few locations day after day, thinking the cheese they’re sniffing for will somehow magically appear on the routes they cover over and over again. They’re born into the programmed maze, so they can’t even conceive of a different way of life. Not only can’t they believe in a different way of life, but they’re programmed to scoff and ridicule the few freethinkers who do. After the ridiculing, they go back to their programming, pushing buttons and pulling levers for no reason. Ah, the good old rat race that never ends till cancer comes a knockin’.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“You have been feeling the way your society programmed you to feel. You have been thinking the way your society programmed you to think. You have been behaving the way your society programmed you to behave. Even your desires are not your own, original desires. They are all programmed in you by your society. Have you done anything original in your life?”
― Abhijit Naskar, A Push in Perception

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is being moral, while in reality, the person may be committing the worst kind of immoral atrocities ever.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Morality Absolute

“The harsh reality of modern world is that almost every single puny human has become slave to a neurotic society. And no government, democratic or otherwise, can bring progress in such a mentally degraded society. The only way forward is inward. Look inside - look inside, for the society has conditioned every single one of its members to look outside, and that is the reason behind all the conflicts, chaos and inequalities in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Let The Poor Be Your God

“Enough is enough - wake up and live already.”
― Abhijit Naskar, All For Acceptance

“To awake or not to awake - that is the question.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac

“Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.”
― Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication

“Experience does not give you wisdom. Wisdom comes through liberation of the mind. And since most humans live a conditioned life, they never get liberated in the first place, hence they never even have the taste of wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, A Push in Perception

“To be an original human, you must die to all labels.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Does one need to deceive oneself, to understand self-deception! If not, then why do you deceive yourself, by conforming to the social labels, be it a religious label, a non-religious label, a nationalist label, an intellectual label, or a gender label.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Let The Poor Be Your God

“Delusions believed by billions are still delusions and the truth of one humanity embraced by even one human is still the truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“For the society to sustain itself and progress at the same time, there must be a healthy interaction between order and chaos. Remember, every feat of originality is born of chaos, but to make that feat effective in society, a little order is required.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

“A twenty dollar watch shows the same time as a two hundred watch, and also it keeps you healthy, by not conditioning your mind with a ping every few minutes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“...For it is only when we profoundly understand our own true nature that we can experience the world and reality as it is, unfiltered. Free of the hooks that otherwise push and pull us in different directions. Until then, we are like puppets to the shadow world and our own social programming.”
― Sita Bennett, She Who Rose From Ashes

“Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.”
― Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication

“A twenty dollar watch shows the same time as a two hundred dollar watch, and also it keeps you healthy, by not conditioning your mind with a ping every few minutes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“No brainwash has any hold over one who is heartwashed.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“If you give in, the jungle gains another predator. If you stand firm, the world gains a transformer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Every spine holds a backbone,
But peer pressure turns it into jello.
Every body holds a conscientious being,
But society conditions it to be callow.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Conscience is my constitution,
Compassion is my culture,
Character is my government.
I don't need any second hand
constitution, second hand culture,
second hand government.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“In a world that rewards
second-hand existence,
Stand alone and original,
as a first-hand sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Paralyzed Reality (The Sonnet)

Newspaper to smartphone,
rabbit r1 to apple vision pro,
social disconnection only
changes face, nothing more.

Nobody is busy enough
to need VR while walking.
People are meant to own tech,
Yet the opposite is happening.

Every tech has its place and purpose,
How many reminders are enough reminder!
First you buried your head in your phone,
Now you walk around as donkeys with blinker.

Companies are not to blame,
Real culprit is consumer idiocy.
In a world of unawareness,
VR and AR make paralyzed reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets