No matter how much we might seek freedom and self awareness, we are ultimately a product of our society and upbringing. Unless we have made a conscious life long effort to free ourselves from the mental rules and constraints that have been bred into us from a young age, we will not be able to help ourselves but unthinkingly conform to rule and then post justify their existence. This 2 step process is extremely important to understand, the story we tell ourselves about why we follow those rules are false and untrue, they are made up by our imaginations so that we can then feel okay about...