This document discusses how society conditions people to tell others what to do through various social constructs like teaching, work, religion, and money. It argues this tendency to control others stems from not trusting that people already have what they need within themselves. Instead, it suggests we should listen to and trust each individual's inner voice so that we can better understand and support each other.

2. (upon googling ‘what do you call: people telling people what to do’)
people who tell people what to do – thesaurus.
disciplinarian. noun. someone who thinks that people should
obey rules and punishes people who do not.
autocrat. noun. someone who tells other people what to do
without caring what they think.
dictator. noun. tyrant. noun. nag. noun. control freak. noun.
slave driver. noun. …

3. perhaps.. if we think we have to tell people
what to do..
it’s a
huge red flag
we’re doing it (life) w r o n g..

4. and perhaps.. we’ve been doing it so long..
(telling people what to do)
that it’s embedded in everything..
even the nice/normal sounding words.. we
can’t seem to let go of

5. gifts/charity
telling people what they need to need

6. reciprocity
telling people that they need to create/master a tit-for-tat
spreadsheet (for all their interactions with other people)

7. religion/preaching
telling people what they need to believe

8. school/teaching
telling people what they need to know

9. work/earning
telling people what they need to do to ‘earn a living’

10. external incentives
telling people that they need to ignore their gut (even as it
unmoors them).. and accept external encouragement to do
things (that other people tell them to do)

11. prep/train
telling people that they need to
wait/remain-on-hold/stay-on-the-line..
until they’re good enough (as defined by other people)

12. responsibility/
obligation
telling people that they have to follow duty/rules
(made by other people)

13. agenda
telling people they need to ignore their curiosity and focus on
maps/lists (made by other people)

14. verifiability/
validation
telling people that they need to
earn/get/steal/lie/whatever
in order to get a stamp of approval
(from other people)

15. credentials
telling people that they need to jump through hoops in order
to be suitable (to/for other people)

16. productivity
telling people that they need to produce something.. get
things done (for other people)

17. contracts
telling people that they should not
trust people unless it’s
signed/written/bound
(by other people)

18. identity
telling people that they need to focus on one thing
and stick to it

19. we still can’t even seem to let go of ..
the not so nice but normal sounding words..

20. money
telling people what they need to sell-out for and accumulate..
in order to measure/keep up (to other people)

21. judgment
telling people that they are supposed to be ok with other people
inspecting/ranking/enclosing/oppressing/slighting/abusing/de-humanizing
them..

22. punishment
telling people what they need to not do..
and if they do it..
that they need to be ok with getting hit/hurt/confined
(by other people)

23. borders
telling people that they have to stay out.. because they’re
other/ower/lesser

24. is killing us..
it’s making us not us

25. most people are
other people.
their thoughts
are other
people’s
opinions.
their lives a
mimicry.
their passions
a quote.
– Oscar Wilde

26. let’s try instead..

27. all we need to hear..
is already in us

28. that we’re

29. and then let’s

30. so we all have

31. that will only
(and can) happen
if we just listen to
(AND trust) the
8 billion
(has to be all
of us or it
won’t work)

33. so we can

34. what the world needs most is the
energy of 8b alive people

35. imagine if we just focused on listening
to the itch-in-8b-souls.. first thing..
everyday..
and used that data to augment our
interconnectedness..
we might just get to a more antifragile,
healthy, thriving world.. the ecosystem
we keep longing for..

38. killing us softly with its song