Speaker 1: The modern school system as we know it was designed
Speaker 1: during the Industrial Revolution. Its primary purpose was not to
Speaker 1: cultivate thinkers or dreamers, but to produce disciplined workers for factories.
Speaker 1: The schedule, the bells, the repetitive tasks all mirror the
Speaker 1: structure of industrial labor. As philosopher Ivan Ilitch pointed out
Speaker 1: in de Schooling Society, the system creates a world in
Speaker 1: which people mistake schooling for education, great advancement for learning,
Speaker 1: and diplomas for competence. The result a generation taught to
Speaker 1: follow instructions, not intuition. We are told that education is
Speaker 1: the path to freedom, but the kind of education most
Speaker 1: people receive is a subtle form of domestication. Schools rarely
Speaker 1: teach us how to think critically about our own lives.
Speaker 1: They prepare us to pass tests, not to understand ourselves,
Speaker 1: and by the time we graduate, most of us have
Speaker 1: lost touch with our inner curiosity, the spark that makes
Speaker 1: us human. We enter the world believing that success means
Speaker 1: finding a state job, earning enough to survive, and obeying
Speaker 1: the unwritten rules of society. But here's the paradox. The
Speaker 1: system that promises security often delivers anxiety. Students are pressured
Speaker 1: to compete for grades, adults for promotions, and everyone for
Speaker 1: status symbols that prove their worth. The very institutions that
Speaker 1: claim to prepare us for life often prepare us only
Speaker 1: for servitude. Have you ever stopped to wonder why schools
Speaker 1: rarely teach emotional intelligence, financial literacy, or how to find
Speaker 1: meaning in what we do? Why do we spend so
Speaker 1: many years memorizing facts that can be found in seconds online,
Speaker 1: but never learn how to manage our own minds. Psychologist
Speaker 1: Abraham Maslow once said that education should be a process
Speaker 1: of self discovery, not conformity. Yet most people leave school
Speaker 1: not knowing who they are, what they love, or what
Speaker 1: truly matters to them. Instead, they learn to chase external
Speaker 1: validation to seek approval from teachers, bosses, and peers. They
Speaker 1: become adults who can follow orders perfectly, but struggle to
Speaker 1: answer the simplest question, what do I really want from life?
Speaker 1: This is not accidental. The system was designed this way
Speaker 1: because obedient workers are easier to control than free thinkers.
Speaker 1: French philosopher Michel Foucot explored this in Discipline and Punish,
Speaker 1: where he described how schools, factories, and prisons share the
Speaker 1: same logic of surveillance and control. Bells mark time, Authority
Speaker 1: dictates movement, and those who disobey are labeled as failures
Speaker 1: or trouble makers. It's not just a coincidence, It's a
Speaker 1: structure of power disguised as education. Now this doesn't mean
Speaker 1: education is worthless. Knowledge is the key to freedom, but
Speaker 1: only when it leads to awareness. The problem isn't learning,
Speaker 1: it's the way we are taught what to learn and why.
Speaker 1: When curiosity is replaced with competition and purpose is replaced
Speaker 1: with performance, the mind begins to serve the system instead
Speaker 1: of the self. Ask yourself, when was the last time
Speaker 1: you learn so just because you were genuinely curious, not
Speaker 1: because someone told you it would look good on a resume.
Speaker 1: When was the last time you questioned why you believe
Speaker 1: the things you believe? These are not just philosophical questions,
Speaker 1: They are the first steps toward breaking the invisible chains
Speaker 1: that bind us. Because if the rat race starts at school,
Speaker 1: then true freedom starts with unlearning. But what exactly must
Speaker 1: we unlearn? In the next part of this video, we'll
Speaker 1: uncover how the transition from the class room to the
Speaker 1: workplace is designed to keep you trapped in the same
Speaker 1: psychological cage, only with higher stakes and fewer exits. Think
Speaker 1: about the moment you left school and stepped into the
Speaker 1: world of work. You probably felt that the years of
Speaker 1: study were finally over, that now you were free to
Speaker 1: choose your own path. But soon the illusion began to fade.
Speaker 1: You realized that the same patterns from school had followed
Speaker 1: you into adulthood. The bells became alarms, the teachers became bosses,
Speaker 1: the grades turned into performance reviews. The fear of failure
Speaker 1: never left, it only changed its name. This is how
Speaker 1: the system ensures its continuity. What began as obedience in
Speaker 1: childhood becomes dependence in adulthood. We are taught to seek
Speaker 1: approval and follow rules, not to build autonomy or question
Speaker 1: the structures around us, and so the workplace becomes the
Speaker 1: adult version of the classroom, a place where creativity is
Speaker 1: sacrificed for efficiency, where individuality is replaced by roles and
Speaker 1: job titles, and where the reward for compliance is simply
Speaker 1: permission to keep running. Sociologist Max Weber described this as
Speaker 1: the iron cage of rationalization, a world where human life
Speaker 1: becomes organized around efficiency, calculation, and control. The irony is
Speaker 1: that this system was meant to bring progress and stability,
Speaker 1: but in doing so, it has drained meaning from our lives.
Speaker 1: People work longer hours than ever before, yet feel emptier inside.
Speaker 1: The more we produce, the less we seem to feel alive.
Speaker 1: Think of the average person's life path. Study hard, get
Speaker 1: good grades, get a job, by a house, pay bills,
Speaker 1: and retire if you are lucky, before you die. But
Speaker 1: what if the goal itself is the trap. What if
Speaker 1: the system was never meant to lead to freedom, but
Speaker 1: to keep you endlessly occupied. Philosopher Alan Watts once compared
Speaker 1: this to playing a game where we are told that
Speaker 1: success is always just one step ahead, better grades, higher salary,
Speaker 1: bigger house. Yet no one ever tells us that the
Speaker 1: game was rigged from the start. By the time we
Speaker 1: realize it, most of our time and energy have already
Speaker 1: been spent. Why do so many people accept this without question?
Speaker 1: Because the system rewards conformity with comfort and punishes resistance
Speaker 1: with uncertainty. It convinces us that stability is safety, and
Speaker 1: that following the path others laid out is wisdom. But
Speaker 1: deep down we know that something is wrong. We sense
Speaker 1: it in the anxiety that fills our days, in the
Speaker 1: exhaustion that never seems to end, and in the quiet
Speaker 1: longing for something more, a life with meaning, not just survival.
Speaker 1: Psychologist Victor Frankel, who survived the horrors of the concentration camps,
Speaker 1: wrote that life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but
Speaker 1: only by lack of meaning and purpose. In today's world,
Speaker 1: millions suffer from this silent emptiness. They have jobs, possessions,
Speaker 1: and routines, but no deeper purpose. They wake up each
Speaker 1: morning not to live, but to endure. And yet this
Speaker 1: emptiness is not a sign of failure. It is a
Speaker 1: symptom of awakening. It is the soul's way of whispering.
Speaker 1: You were not meant for this. Have you ever wondered
Speaker 1: why you feel drained even when you do everything right.
Speaker 1: You went to school, you worked hard, you followed the rules,
Speaker 1: but happiness seems just out of reach. That's because the
Speaker 1: system is designed to keep you striving but never arriving.
Speaker 1: It promises satisfaction to morrow, to keep you obedient to day,
Speaker 1: and in that endless pursuit, you forget the essence of
Speaker 1: being alive, to experience, to create, to connect, to grow,
Speaker 1: economist John Maynard Canes once predicted that by now, technological
Speaker 1: progress would have allowed people to work only a few
Speaker 1: hours per week and enjoy abundant leisure. Yet the opposite happened.
Speaker 1: Productivity soared, but so did burn out. We built machines
Speaker 1: to save time, and then filled that saved time with
Speaker 1: more work. The system doesn't reward efficiency with freedom. It
Speaker 1: rewards it with more demands. The faster we run, the
Speaker 1: faster the treadmill moves. This is not a conspiracy. It's
Speaker 1: a cultural inheritance, a collective trance passed down through generations.
Speaker 1: From childhood, we are told that our worth is measured
Speaker 1: by how much we achieve, how much we earn, how
Speaker 1: much we own. We internalize this idea so deeply that
Speaker 1: even when we suspect something is wrong, we feel guilty
Speaker 1: for wanting more than the system allows. We call it laziness,
Speaker 1: when in truth it is a quiet rebellion against a
Speaker 1: life that doesn't nourish the soul. The philosopher Eric From
Speaker 1: described this perfectly when he wrote about the having mode
Speaker 1: versus the being mode. Modern society. He argued conditions us
Speaker 1: to define ourselves by what we have, not by who
Speaker 1: we are, and in doing so, it alienates us from
Speaker 1: our own essence. We become human doings instead of human beings.
Speaker 1: The tragedy is that this illusion feels so normal that
Speaker 1: few ever question it. So how do we break free?
Speaker 1: Awareness is the first step, but it's not enough. We
Speaker 1: must understand how the system keeps us compliant. The next
Speaker 1: layer of control is psychological. It operates not through chains,
Speaker 1: but through invisible beliefs implanted in our minds. These beliefs
Speaker 1: convince us that success equals happiness, that authority knows best,
Speaker 1: and that deviation from the norm is dangerous. Ask yourself this,
Speaker 1: who benefits from your exhaustion? Who profits when you doubt
Speaker 1: your own worth, when you spend your life chasing external
Speaker 1: approval instead of building internal peace. The truth is uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: but necessary. Your dependence is profit, your distraction is valuable,
Speaker 1: and your conformity sustains an entire economic machine. But once
Speaker 1: you see this, the illusion begins to crack. You start
Speaker 1: noticing how fear, competition, and scarcity are used to manipulate
Speaker 1: your choices. You begin to sense that the rat race
Speaker 1: isn't fueled by necessity, but by conditioning, and in the
Speaker 1: next part, will go even deeper, we'll uncover how modern
Speaker 1: culture and technology reinforce this mental prison, and how you
Speaker 1: can begin reclaiming your autonomy in a world built to
Speaker 1: keep you docile. Picture this a society where everyone is
Speaker 1: constantly connected, yet deeply alone, Where we have access to
Speaker 1: infinite knowledge yet rarely question the information we consume. Where
Speaker 1: every scroll, every click, every notification is not an act
Speaker 1: of freedom but a carefully engineered impulse. This is the
Speaker 1: new classroom of the rat race, and now instead of
Speaker 1: chalkboards and teachers, we have screens and algorithms shaping how
Speaker 1: we think, fee and behave. The system has evolved. It
Speaker 1: no longer needs to confine you to a physical classroom
Speaker 1: or a factory flow. It simply needs your attention, because
Speaker 1: in the digital age, attention is the new currency, and
Speaker 1: distraction is the new form of control. The philosopher Beyong
Speaker 1: chul Han calls it the burnout society, where people exploit
Speaker 1: themselves in the name of self optimization. We no longer
Speaker 1: have external masters driving us. We have internalized the master within.
Speaker 1: We pressure ourselves to be productive, visible, and constantly improving.
Speaker 1: We become our own task masters, voluntarily running in the
Speaker 1: hamster wheel, chasing validation that never satisfies. Technology promised liberation.
Speaker 1: It told us we could work smarter, connect deeper, and
Speaker 1: live freer. But instead it has merged work and life
Speaker 1: into a single blur of constant performance. Social media transformed
Speaker 1: the metrics of success from income to image. Now even
Speaker 1: rest must be esthetic, even authenticity must be curated. Every post,
Speaker 1: every story, every like becomes part of an invisible race
Speaker 1: for significance. We compare our private struggles to the public
Speaker 1: highlight reels of others and wonder why we feel so small.
Speaker 1: French sociologist Jean Baudriarre once wrote that modern life has
Speaker 1: replaced reality with simulacra copies of things that no longer
Speaker 1: have an original. In this sense, we no longer chase
Speaker 1: real fulfillment. We chase the image of fulfillment. We do
Speaker 1: not seek truth, We seek recognition. We are no longer
Speaker 1: educated to understand the world, but to brand ourselves within it.
Speaker 1: The rat race no longer ends when you clock out
Speaker 1: of work. It follows you home, lives in your pocket,
Speaker 1: and whispers in your mind. But how did we get here?
Speaker 1: The roots go back to the same conditioning that began
Speaker 1: in school compliance disguised as success, we learn to equate
Speaker 1: being busy with being valuable. We were rewarded for fitting in,
Speaker 1: not standing out. Now as adults, that conditioning is amplified
Speaker 1: by algorithms that measure our worth in numbers, followers, likes,
Speaker 1: engagement rates, and so we live in a paradox. The
Speaker 1: more connected we are, the more disconnected we become from
Speaker 1: our inner voice, our true values, our sense of purpose.
Speaker 1: Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to do nothing,
Speaker 1: to simply be Try sitting quietly without checking your phone,
Speaker 1: without filling the silence with something to do. Within minutes,
Speaker 1: anxiety rises. That discomfort isn't natural, It's the withdrawal symptom
Speaker 1: of a mind addicted to stimulation. We've been conditioned to
Speaker 1: confuse stillness with laziness, silence with boredom, solitude with loneliness.
Speaker 1: But those very states are where clarity, creativity, and peace
Speaker 1: are born. Philosopher Sir and Keirkgard once said that the
Speaker 1: crowd is untruth. He meant that truth cannot be found
Speaker 1: in collective opinion or external validation. It must come from within.
Speaker 1: Yet the modern rat race traps us in the crowd,
Speaker 1: drowning our intervin duality. In a sea of noise. We
Speaker 1: spend our lives reacting to what others do, think and expect,
Speaker 1: until we forget that our existence was never meant to
Speaker 1: be a performance. It was meant to be an experience.
Speaker 1: So how do we awaken from this digital trance? The
Speaker 1: first step is awareness, the recognition that your time and
Speaker 1: attention are being harvested. Every time you pick up your
Speaker 1: phone out of boredom, every time you feel the urge
Speaker 1: to check if someone has liked your post, you are
Speaker 1: being conditioned. This is not by accident, it is design.
Speaker 1: The same principles used to train obedience in school are
Speaker 1: now embedded in the technologies we use daily repetition, reward,
Speaker 1: and fear of missing out. The bell has simply been
Speaker 1: replaced by the notification sound. But there is hope in
Speaker 1: this realization, because once you see the system for what
Speaker 1: it is, you can begin to step outside it. You
Speaker 1: can begin to reclaim the most precious resource you have,
Speaker 1: your consciousness. Awareness disrupts the loop. When you start questioning
Speaker 1: why you do what you do. You begin to see
Speaker 1: how much of your behavior was never truly your choice,
Speaker 1: And with that awareness comes power, the power to choose differently.
Speaker 1: Ask yourself, what if success isn't about winning the race,
Speaker 1: but about realizing you are never supposed to run it.
Speaker 1: What if freedom doesn't come from having more options, but
Speaker 1: from needing fewer. What if the purpose of life is
Speaker 1: not to accumulate but to awaken. Throughout history, great thinkers
Speaker 1: and mystics have tried to remind humanity of this truth,
Speaker 1: From the teachings of Buddha on detachment to Henry David
Speaker 1: Threau's call to simplify simplify, the message has always been
Speaker 1: the same. Liberation begins when we turn inward, not outward.
Speaker 1: The modern world, however, has perfected the art of distraction
Speaker 1: to keep us from doing exactly that. It offers endless
Speaker 1: stimulation so that we never face the silence that reveals
Speaker 1: who we truly are. But here's the paradox that most
Speaker 1: people never realize. The more we chase external validation, the
Speaker 1: emptier we feel. The moment we stop seeking, however, we
Speaker 1: begin to see stillness is not the absence of life.
Speaker 1: It is where life truly begins. Freedom is not found
Speaker 1: in escaping the system, but in understanding how it operates
Speaker 1: within us. Once you see that the race exists only
Speaker 1: in the mind. You stop running, and when you stop running,
Speaker 1: you start living. In the next and final part of
Speaker 1: this video, we will uncover the ultimate revelation, the insight
Speaker 1: that ties everything together. We will explore how to break
Speaker 1: free from the mental and emotional conditioning that keeps us
Speaker 1: trapped in the cycle of work, bills and quiet despair.
Speaker 1: And more importantly, we will discover how to build a
Speaker 1: life that is truly yours, authentic, meaningful, and awake. What
Speaker 1: if the real revolution isn't about changing the system, but
Speaker 1: about changing the self. Because the system thrives on unconscious participation,
Speaker 1: It depends on your automatic compliance, your unquestioned habits, and
Speaker 1: your silent agreement to keep running the race. The moment
Speaker 1: you stop running, the system begins to lose its grip.
Speaker 1: True rebellion is not noise, It is awareness. Think about it.
Speaker 1: Every generation is told the same story. Work hard, be responsible,
Speaker 1: climb the ladder. And while these ideals are not inherently wrong,
Speaker 1: they often come wrapped in a lie, the lie that
Speaker 1: your worth is measured by your productivity, your status, or
Speaker 1: your possessions. This narrative keeps you striving for external markers
Speaker 1: of success, while the inner life. The world of meaning,
Speaker 1: peace and purpose remains neglected. But when you awaken even slightly,
Speaker 1: you begin to see the cracks in the illusion. Psychologist
Speaker 1: Carl Jung once said, until you make the unconscious conscious,
Speaker 1: it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.
Speaker 1: This is the essence of breaking free from the rat race.
Speaker 1: It's not about rejecting society or abandoning your responsibilities. It's
Speaker 1: about seeing clearly the invisible patterns that govern your behavior.
Speaker 1: The conditioning from school, the pressure from work, the need
Speaker 1: for validoration from technology. All of it loses its power
Speaker 1: when you become aware of it. Awareness transforms compulsion into choice.
Speaker 1: But awareness alone is not enough. The next step is alignment.
Speaker 1: Once you see how much of your life has been
Speaker 1: shaped by fear, fear of failure, fear of judgment, fear
Speaker 1: of not being enough, you must begin to realign your
Speaker 1: actions with what is real and meaningful to you. Ask yourself,
Speaker 1: what do I truly value? What would I pursue if
Speaker 1: no one were watching, if there were no grades, no bosses,
Speaker 1: no social metrics to impress. These questions are uncomfortable because
Speaker 1: they confront you with your own forgotten freedom. Most people
Speaker 1: live their entire lives. Running from that discomfort. They cling
Speaker 1: to routines, distractions, and illusions of certainty because facing themselves
Speaker 1: feels terrifying. But freedom always requires courage, courage to question,
Speaker 1: to stand apart, to slow down when the world screams
Speaker 1: for speed. The philosopher Krishna Morti said, it is no
Speaker 1: measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly
Speaker 1: sickx ccx society. To awaken is to become healthily unadjusted,
Speaker 1: to stop mistaking exhaustion for virtue, busyness for purpose, and
Speaker 1: obedience for peace. The system will not applaud your awakening.
Speaker 1: It may even punish it. People around you may call
Speaker 1: you unrealistic or lazy when you begin to value presents
Speaker 1: over performance. But remember this, every step toward authenticity will
Speaker 1: feel like rebellion to those who are still asleep. You
Speaker 1: are not here to fit in. You are here to
Speaker 1: wake up. So how do you live differently in a
Speaker 1: world designed to keep you the same. You begin by
Speaker 1: reclaiming what the system stole from you. Your attention, your time,
Speaker 1: your mind, and your sense of wonder. Guard your attention
Speaker 1: as you would your most valuable possession, because it is
Speaker 1: spend time each day, disconnected from the noise, without screens,
Speaker 1: without agendas, just being, let your mind breathe, read, not
Speaker 1: to impress, but to understand, work, not to survive, but
Speaker 1: to express, create something not because it's profitable, but beca
Speaker 1: because it feels alive within you. You will notice that
Speaker 1: when you stop chasing what you think you should want,
Speaker 1: space opens up for what you truly desire. That space
Speaker 1: is sacred in it, you reconnect with the part of
Speaker 1: yourself that school work and society tried to suppress, the
Speaker 1: part that dreams, questions, and creates. That is where real
Speaker 1: education begins, not the memorization of facts, but the cultivation
Speaker 1: of consciousness. Victor Frankel taught that the last of human
Speaker 1: freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set
Speaker 1: of circumstances. That is the essence of liberation. Even within
Speaker 1: systems of control, you can choose how to see, how
Speaker 1: to act, how to live. Freedom is not somewhere outside
Speaker 1: of you. It begins in the way you perceive your world.
Speaker 1: The external rat race loses its grip when the internal
Speaker 1: race ends. Ask yourself, are you living by design or
Speaker 1: by default? Are you building your life consciously or are
Speaker 1: you following a script written by someone else. These are
Speaker 1: not questions man to condemn, but to awaken, because the
Speaker 1: moment you ask them sincerely, you begin to rewrite the script.
Speaker 1: You begin to live with intention, not inertia. And perhaps
Speaker 1: that is the greatest act of defiance in the modern world,
Speaker 1: not to escape the system entirely, but to move through
Speaker 1: it with awareness, using it without being used by it.
Speaker 1: To find peace in a culture of chaos, to be
Speaker 1: fully alive in a world that wants you numbed by routine.
Speaker 1: So let this be your awakening. The rat race starts
Speaker 1: at school, but it can end the moment you decide
Speaker 1: to stop running. The finish line was never out there,
Speaker 1: it was always within you. When you see that the
Speaker 1: bell stop ringing, the grades no longer matter, the noise fades,
Speaker 1: and in the quiet that follows, you find yourself again, free, awake,
Speaker 1: and alive.