Character Is Destiny Analysis

Before I write on how Character is Destiny affected me I need to give my two cents on some thought provoking statements made in this book. The 21st century is burdened with multiple aspects that are not mentioned by Russell Gough. My personal opinion on how to attempt to fix things is a slightly more open-minded approach. I agree that it is extremely easy to point fingers and not take the responsibility for our own actions, in multiple chapters it was mentioned that our upbringing as well as the situations other people put us in does not excuse our actions.
This world has been poisoned by Society, this ‘perfect’ hierarchy created by man so that they can control other humans as well as other species, the greed of power. Money has become the …show more content…
I believe it was this way before and could be again, somewhere we just missed the boat. It, character, has been smothered by society and sadly we are herd animals that want to be accepted, this vicious cycle of the snake eating its own tail. Does this sound familiar; promoted, unrealistic skinny models equals insecurities in not just females but males too or, how about needing money to get anything/everything you need and/or desire. Social pressure is all around us and if you think you are not a victim then I pity your ignorance/ arrogance. To strengthen our character we, we are society, would need to deprogram all that we have been taught as well as conditioned form the past and then revolutionize and reprogram ourselves once more. Walt Whitman said it best “Re-examine all you have been taught and dismiss what insults your …show more content…
I cannot predict the future of this world and its occupants, nor can I foresee my own future. This book however is a good guideline to live by with my own simple modifications. As a young adult my parents conditioned my upbringing and their parents conditioned them, each generation had a different era they grew up with in which the rules changed, why? Society and evolution. I am an ambitious, intelligent and, independent woman raised in a farming community, in South Africa, which I have my family and community to thank for my upbringing yet, when I moved to America the morals I’ve been raised with do not apply in this ‘world’. How do I balance my previous conditioned morals, ethics and, character with the adaptations needed to survive in this one? Anne Frank hit the nail on the head when she wrote, “the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands”. I believe this to be true and attempt every day to integrate good habits, virtues, as no one will be doing it for