Catch-22

Learnt something about Catch-22 today. Pretty Interesting stuff. It is the illusion of choice when you have none. A probabilistic  event which is the confluence of many mutually exclusive events. It is a strategy the society uses day in and day out to get you to comply with its norms.

            Here's a typical illustration:

When you are in school, you are told your life will be great once you get into college. Or at least that's what those worthless blokes in the movies portray. Once you clear that stage, you are told "Get into a top Management school  and the 'Dream life' shall be yours". Ad nauseam...ad infinitum....... 

                     In all this,you apparently have a choice. That of working hard and doing what people expect of you, the other option always scares us. The uncharted territory into which you will slip into if you don't listen to them. So you don't really have a choice, do you?

                                       Curious thing is, the only people the society respects is those who break its rules. All great thinkers were born not out of conformity but of rebellion.

                                           And the life of us mere mortals is born not so much of choices we make, but of choices we fail to make. Choices we consider society to be entitled to make for us. 

Worth pondering over. Isn't it...?