Actually, Socrates said something along those lines about 2400 years ago.
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Originally Posted by kahljorn
It's like Alan Watts says:
Culture/Eduction destroys the spontaneous nature of a child, and in order to function as "Proper Adults" you have to lose your imagination and creativity and become Self-conscious of everything you do... so the life cycle of a person is to lose their child like aspect, become self conscious, then spend a few years trying to regain their creativity and spontaniaty.
In most respects that Culture and education is a necessary evil.
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