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"Where are the people that chose their lives?
... maybe a life of drudgery and carrot-chasing is exactly what we would chose if we did chose, but we don't. That's what it means to be unconscious; to be asleep within the dream. We slip into the lives that are laid out for us the way children slip into the clothes their mother lays out for them in the morning. No one decides. We don't live our lives by choice, but by default. We play the roles we are born to. We don't live our lives, we dispose of them. We throw them away because we don't know any better, and the reason we don't know any better is because we never asked. We never questioned or doubted, never stood up, never drew a line. We never walked up to our parents or our spiritual advisors or our teachers or our gurus or any other formative presences in our early lives and asked one simple, honest, straightforward question, the one question that must be answered before any other question can be asked:
What the hell is going on here?"
Doesn’t everyone choose their lives? I think more people are conscious of their choices than McKenna cares to admit.
i think mckenna is right. most people *think* they are making choices, but really they are choosing to do things the way they have always been done, or following a certain religion or political party because that’s what their parents chose, etc. sure people choose their lives, but most people are not conscious of why they make the choices they do, i think this is more the point of what mckenna is making. it’s more that most people choose to follow the herd instead of thinking for themselves.