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The question, “How much are we governed by our mutual agreements?” is important and valid. The question, “What is actually happening when we agree?” could also be helpful.
Culture is built from mutual agreements. Dynamic, interacting, interlocking systems of mutually held ideas. Most of the time we’re not even aware when we are making these agreements between each other. We’re signalling that we agree with subtle gestures or speech derived from unconscious, mostly reactive thought. And these unconscious thoughts are themselves derived, to a large degree, by the culture.
When we start getting aware of this dynamic and begin to move against it, we realise how powerful the momentum of the system is. To stand against it can be painful, psychologically, and sometimes physically. But that is what the Occupy Movement is an expression of, in my opinion. And that is why it should be celebrated.

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