Then they are still relying on someone elese to decide for them what they should do.
Possibly. So?
We have the history of the Soviet Union to examine. People who were raised in a system that made most of their major decisions for them were frightened and confused by an increase in their freedom.
They had no experience in travel with little restriction , in schooling that the goernment didn't arrange for them , in compiling wealth for themselves and in chooseing leadership.
With so many walls around their lives, they became accustomed to them , their skills at decision makeing were undeveloped.This is not because they are stupid , it is a matter of being trained and adapted to the environment they were in, Most Soviet citizens learned how to cope with a very intrusive and controlling govenment , but did they realise how dependn they had become?
Most Americans learn scepticism and sales resistance from an early age and can cope with advertisement and lobbyists. W are accustomed to thinking of our government as people we hire , ordinary people , not the choice of God nor the amazeing man of destiny.
But...
There is a lot of appeal in the idea of making the government handle more and more of our problems , requireing the goverment to become more and more intrusive so that it can handle the problems , allowing ourselves to become depedant. So my criticim of the USSR citizens has the aspect of a mirror somewhat , if we accept enough crutches we don't really need, soon we do need them haveing forgotten how to walk without them.
Eschewing the need for close supervision some people controll their own selves and don't eed to be closely watched all the time just so that they won't do harm or accept harm. Lot of don't know how to do this .
