A ‘conditioned person’ generally refers to one who has been influenced or shaped by external influences such as societal norms, cultural values education or specific experiences.
The conditioned persons beliefs behaviours and attitudes may largely be influenced by their environment and upbringing. Conditioning might involve social, psychological or educational factors that shape that person’s personality and values and so they may have certain beliefs or values based on their family or cultural influences.
A ‘real person’ generally refers to one who is more abstract and philosophical in their thinking. This applies to a person who presents their true authentic self which is unburdened by external influences or societal expectations and they live that core essence.
There are people who have always been like that, however, there are also people who have been able to find their true core essence through ‘going within’ to discover who they really are and they have been able to express their true selves whilst putting aside societal pressures and conditioning.
Whilst the boundary between a conditioned person and a real person is not clearly defined, only the person knows who they are and a process of undertaking personal growth and self-awareness can assist in the process of peeling away the layers of conditioning to uncover one’s authentic self.
Conditioning has in many cases denied people their innate knowing of their chosen path for one that is expected of them by custom, family or societal expectations thereby aborting their free will to decide for themselves.
From the earliest age many are indoctrinated into religion where we must be cleansed because we are told we were born dirty and from there we must go to church and ask forgiveness for sins, for the most part this has become a crutch for some to be excused for abhorrent behaviour.
Society has become a place where if you want to be seen as successful you must have the right education, get high marks and go to university, get a degree or more and then you marry, buy a big house, drive a new car, get that employment position that enables you to maintain a lifestyle that is a show of your success.
Whilst there are certainly many who achieve the ultimate dream of what they would call a success, there are many more who have not had the opportunities or advantage of position to be able to mirror that success. Conversely there are those who choose to avoid any desire to advance any ambition they may harbour.
In any case there is a similarity in that each of them is chasing to either ignite their dream at whatever cost whilst others live with constant stress to maintain or achieve a level of status that society would view their position as successful, whilst others have just given up.
In either case, we as a society are seeing the result of the pressure imposed on all levels of society by governments making laws that impose restrictions on business which makes it more difficult for a person to be able to operate authentically because they need a licence for one thing a qualification for another and various taxes and levies imposed.
Laws are in place to inhibit a parent’s ability to raise their family as they deem fit (that is not to say all laws are inappropriate).
Teachers at schools are required to spend as much time teaching a curriculum that is a one size fits all as they are required to do paperwork which does not generally benefit a child, they are teaching.
Technology has taken the place of communication and there are many who are very capable of developing and working with advancing technology who have little or no inclination to study for a qualification to be able to gain meaningful employment in their chosen field and so are denied the opportunity to do so.
Whilst technology is a wonderful addition to society it should be remembered that there are those who are very capable of developing their own expertise without the need for formal qualification and this is where the institutions of ‘formal’ education do not serve society the way they should.
An example is that of Nikola Tesla who finished school after year eight, he is recognised as having a genius level IQ, never had any formal education after leaving school and has more than 275 patents in his name in on over 26 countries.
Tesla is known as the father of AC electricity and it is known that he was the first to identify that there is an infinite source of electricity all around us but because society has been controlled by governments listening to powerful elites his inventions have been supressed, fortunately there will come a time when those inventions will be available to all.
I pose the question here; how many more people have been or are capable of developing skills or inventions that could help society become more advanced but do not succeed because of societal or regulatory impositions.
I would posture that it is time for society to recognise that while we continue to ‘condition’ people they cannot be who they ‘really’ are, the mantle of control needs to be lifted to let people be who they really are not a clone of what society expects them to be.