Do people who allow circumstances to decide who they are, and act on impulses and emotions, who never decide to make things be different in spite of what would feel good to do, do those people have free will, or would you just say they havent learned to excersize it yet?

In the same way, do people who's worldview has been algorithmically shaped by a megacorperation, who trust and never verify, who don't even know how to verify, do those people have free will, or is it just that they haven't learned to use it yet?

I say this, and yet I was like this. Even now I can see ways to improve my ability to exercise free will.

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Elephants 🐘 growing up chained to a twig tree. They know not their strength since they’ve never used it. It’s the wrong question. The question is, how best to teach the elephant to walk away.

You can only help. You can not make someone do what they don't want to do. It has to start there. The elephant has to first decide that it wants to move.

I speak the way I do in order to offend them into taking action. Causing inconvenience for people who don't want to move because its too convenient to stay still.

"I bet you can't even think for yourself" I'm saying to them.

"Can too!" Says the impulsive person who reacts intensively to emotional stimulus. Then they begin their struggle and they're on their way.

And I speak this way because, this is how I think in order to improve myself. The reasons I outline are my motivation for making the change. I move away from algorithmically suggested content targeted at influencing emotion why? Because "fuck you for trying that on me!" In this way, by deciding how I chose to feel about it, I use my emotions to direct me where I need to go.

So because it works on me, I thought it might work for others as well.

Anger is a useful tool. Seek it productively as you do here.