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Review Of Think Outside Of The Box By Henry Graeber

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Focusing on our limits intensifies our ignorance about our abilities to achieve great things, which also contributes to the division of classes that has been prevalent for decades. We choose not to acknowledge the fact that the word “limit” was only manufactured to keep us away from attempting the “impossible.” Society inculcates the idea that we are born with a predetermined future to which we are robotically attached to. We are raised with boundaries already prearranged for us, retaining our minds away from revolutionary ways of thinking. Instead of being taught to think outside of the box, we are taught to remain inside that box. This is a violence that we ourselves create because we hurt ourselves by underestimating our skills and our ability …show more content…

But the violence I’m referring to here is not epistemic. It’s quite concrete. All of these are institutions involved in the allocation of resources within a system of property rights regulated and guaranteed by governments in a system that ultimately rests on the threat of force. “Force,” in turn, is just a euphemistic way to refer to violence.” Graeber states exactly what the bubble system does to one. He said “We are not used to thinking of,” and that is exactly what society does to us. It makes us get used to the ways of thinking that fit within its norms or/and beliefs. It is essential to notice the use the pronoun “We” in the sentence because it shows that he acknowledges that he is part of problem. He is also a victim of this system. Graeber is also talking about another system that “rests on the threat of force,” which also contributes to make people think a certain way with this “force.” Graeber states that this force is a façade stablished to cover the real violence behind it. We can perceive this violence as the “force” of society that leads us to a limited thinking behavior. Humans tend to follow the crowd and think as a “normal” person because of the fear of being judged, and this fear of being judged is what Graeber would call

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