Post for Sept 20th

In the piece by Marx and Engle they talk about fetters which I think are important. These fetters are important (in their perspective) because they pretty much shape the way we do things in every perspective of our lives. In paragraph two of our translation we translated that these fetters come partly from our parents and the generations that came before. It also says that these chains become harder and harder to break, almost like a bad habit. What is worse is that everyone you know is doing it, and not just everyone you know, it’s everyone. Now that everyone is doing it, it becomes accepted and this chain becomes even harder to break because if you do oppose it you will face a lot of adversity between your peers. These fetters could be anything also. They could be ideology, mind set, job, values, morals, expressions, and an overall way everyone expresses themselves. In a capitalist society people are taught that to get anywhere in life they must work, or more recently go to school, get a degree, then get a job. These are things that control our life and we are raised to believe that these things are the way things are supposed to be, opposing this sort of thing would get you a lot of negative attention. A good past example of something that was changed due to radical revolution would be segregation. People were taught that this was right and the way things should be, until things started to change. The same thing is happening now in America regarding atheists.