"Have you ever wondered about where our beliefs come from? What drives the way we frame the events we witness? What impact our worldview has on our actions? What meaning can we ascribe to our actions? How do behaviours become normalised and adopted by masses?
... We seem to have a propensity to fall in line with suggestions, and directives even more so, without really thinking too hard.
But unless we think, we risk falling into compliance with directives that turn out not to be good for us, or for others. We have seen many examples of directives these past 3 years.
Stay six feet apart.
Don’t go to a wedding.
Shut down your business.
Don’t visit your mum.
Turn around at the state border.
Get a test.
Don’t get a test.
Isolate for 7 days.
Don’t isolate.
Don’t go to the office.
Follow the arrows around the office.
Don’t wear a mask.
Wear a mask.
Don’t touch the football if it is kicked into the crowd.
Don’t do elective surgery.
Shut your church.
Don’t admit some people into your shop.
Don’t stand up to drink.
Don’t leave your home after 9pm.
Don’t go further than 5 km from your home.
Don’t play golf.
Don’t bother with vitamin D.
Stay inside, don’t get out in the sun.
Take this injection, and this one, and this one.
Don’t call us until you can’t breathe.
We should think about each and every suggestion, every directive, even (or perhaps especially) those that come with penalties for non-compliance. The world may have looked very different if we had."
