Human Potential and Its Malcontents

It has been said that the average human being only expresses a tiny proportion of their potential and this begs the question why the gap between potential and that which is actually achieved? The factors we would have to address would be environmental parental conditioning,trauma,resentments creating negative self denying programmes of limitation,lowered expectations, narrowed perspectives leading to non achievement and social exclusion.Societal institutions which could play into such poverty of expectation and achievement would be Welfare which encourages learned helplessness and dependency,entitlement,non effort and the prevailing orthodoxy in the culture that emphasis the collective over the individual.The altruistic ethos of Socialism plays down and denigrates the individual and champions the masses and collectivist groupthink.Environmentalsim stresses the harm caused by progress and urges a limits to growth perspective which fosters passivity over action and stagnation over development.The systematic hounding and demonising of the producers,the productive wealth creators and their persecution through the confiscatory tax system predicated on socialist envy discourages entrepreneurism and encourage State dependency.So the contributing factors that facilate non achievement of the individual and the expression of only a tiny proportion of potential are culturaland social therby impacting on the personal to produce a dysfunctional society over-dependent on the State.The solution is a programme of self liberation through introspection,analysis,philosophical enquiry and reprogramming of negative thought paterns that are self limiting and negating.Parental factors aside the biggest obstacle to personal growth and development alas are the educational institutions of the State which over the centuries have gained an an un healthy monopoly over the transmission of knowledge and have seized the commanding heights of education and inculcated a socialist ethos into the curicula poisoning the well of knowledge with a toxic brew of collectivist Marxism across the board producing generations of disaffected uneducated youth fit only for the welfare dependency whch has locked in generations since its inception 70 years a go in Britain.