Friends have a great influence on our limits of freedom. Our friends show us what we can and cannot do like our parents, but unlike obedience for our parents, we follow what our friends say because we want to fit in with them, or as adults with society. Friends complete the limits to our “freedom to try” as children and we live with those limits until we grow up and can view the world on our own. As adults, we still have friends, but they do not hold as much influence to our freedom as they did when we were young. When we are able to decide on our own, another, more influential, form of society is replaced with the influence that friends had on us; the media.
Children have friends & family to limit their freedom and adults have the media to do the same. The media tells adults how to live and what to do and not to do. Media has many ways of limiting mans freedom to try. Media brings us news of the world and events that we wouldn’t be able to know otherwise. If media presents this information in a certain way, they can manipulate the truth. Manipulating the truth can make it seem other countries have very little freedom compared to our nation thus leading us to believe that we should be happy with the way our lives are. The media’s information then can change our subconscious thus changing how we view the world. The information that is given to us, most of the time comes from government related topics.
Our freedom to try is the result of our government giving us these freedoms, but sometimes even the government can limit our freedoms in order to benefit the country. The government can be seen as another type of “parent” by which our freedoms are limited and in return they are benefited and so are we (most of the time).Our government may limit our freedom in order to keep peace or stability in the economy. For example, if second-hand smoking is proved to harm children 100% of the time, then that would be one instance where peace may be kept by banning smoking from places where children might be present at. Our freedom to smoke may have had its limits placed on it, but in return children benefit, the smokers shouldn’t be deeply affected, so in the end stability is kept by not banning it everywhere. The government limits our freedom when it is necessary in order to benefit both people and the government. As they place limits on different things that help the nation maintain control, our subconscious learn about our new limits and change our habits.
The notion of an unconscious or subconscious in psychology is considered to be the deepest level of consciousness, that we are not directly aware of, but still affects conscious behavior. As defined by , the is composed of different levels of consciousness, often defined in three parts, as the waking , preconsciousness (which can be recalled with effort), and beneath both of these, the unconscious (which is beyond the reach of voluntary recall). The subconscious (frequently misused and confused with the unconscious) is that merely autonomic function of the brain. As our brain takes in information, we have many external sources telling us what we can and cannot do so as time goes by, our subconscious begins to change the way we function. We begin to function the way that we are told to, thus our freedom to try has its limits placed.
I believe that the freedom to try in this country is in an acceptable state. People could bring up many amenities that they cannot have because media, society, (family and friends) and the government has set limits on their freedom to try. But there are more amenities that we could say that our government does allow us to do when compared to other countries throughout the world. Freedom will always have limits in order to maintain order and then again, freedom will sometimes have limits set on it because people think its right. Our freedom to try does have its limits but I can’t think of any one limit that would prevent us from living a happy fun live with our family, and in the end I think that’s the most important factor in our lives.
