The reactive thinker.

In his youth man gets an idea that he is a freethinker. Sometimes this thought is carried forward into his older age. But it for most people the false sense of freedom diminishes over time. Sooner or later he realises that there are much larger forces at play.

For the young man it may seems like social convention are the main impediment to man's freedom. It seems like most men are enslaved by religion and arbitrary customs, while he himself is free of such chains. What else could be described as free thought. Like I said, there are larger forces at play, and they are history and biology. What is custom next to the whole of human history much less to whole of life's history. Let us not delve into the realm of physics.