What repels us, also attracts us-that's kind of what I intrrupted agency to be. As much as we're a part of our contexts but we're also, just as people who strive to be something different, to subvert those contexts even though we can't completely change them. it intrigues &pushes us toadvance and reach out of the box in which you find yourself.
I think it explains why humans are naturally curious. True, humans are routine creatures who cling to conformity but at the same time when we've been put into too much of a box we try to break free of it.
I was watching this program last night on the history channel
(hist channel rocks!) about hippies and the narrator basically explained why the baby boomers were so angry and felt so cut off, even though most of them came from the middle-class and were brought up with a sense of optimisum.
He said "the '50s was lock step conformity", "you had to do this because this was the way it was done"
"we were bored and fed up and needed something new"
See, even though the hippies were a collasal failure in of themselves, these kids were brought up with one idea on everything, culture, languge, future, purpose, etc. and their "agency" made them want to break from that and try something different.
I hope that made sense
<3 Bella
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