It is not only perception, it is about experience and privileges we have and can enjoy or just don’t have access.
Probably for you writing in English is nothing special, at the same time I know a lot of fathers in authoritarian states who are scarified their lives to give at least the basic education for their children.
Corrupt regimes don’t allow to grow personalities. It is not perception, it is our reality and painful experience.
That is definitely a big problem. A less educated society is easier to control which is why dictatorships usually purge free thinkers. How to minimise tyranny is a great challenge to humanity.
The education element was so stark in South Africa. After apartheid ended, understandable to give jobs and opportunities to the previously abused black population but the havock it caused due to lack of education was obvious at first. An awfully messy transition that should never have needed to happen.
It is an indictment of centralised power that one calls these basic rights “privileges”. The fight seems endless between those fighting for freedom and rights and those trying to remove them. One would think humanity can do better. At least we have better tools now!
