You move through rooms — never seeing the house.
Structure feels safe. Truth feels disruptive.
If you shift your perspective — even slightly — and begin to observe instead of evaluate, you’ll notice something unsettling:
You have moved through structures your entire life.
We don’t call them structures.
We live them.
Childhood. Teenage years. Adulthood. Retirement.
But if you actually look closer, every phase is already structured:
Kindergarten.
School.
Social systems.
Training.
University.
Inside these structures you are told:
“You are learning for life.”
But what is really happening is simpler — and more honest:
You are being shaped.
The word exists for a reason. In German, erziehen does not mean “to educate”. It means to condition.
Then you enter what is called adulthood.
New structures appear:
Career paths.
Jobs.
Promotions.
Certifications.
You move again — not freely — but structurally.
Corporate systems.
Social hierarchies.
Charities.
Networks.
It’s like living inside a house where you walk from room to room.
You experience the rooms — but you never see the house.
At some point — if you are even slightly receptive — questions appear:
What is the meaning of life?
Why are we here?
These are not naive questions.
They are structural questions.
But here is the uncomfortable truth:
Most people do not want answers.
They don’t want truth.
They don’t want clarity.
They don’t want to live what truth would require.
It is far more comfortable to talk about truth
than to carry it.
So people speak about awareness while staying inside their padded rooms.
They believe what they want to believe.
They see what they want to see.
And this behaviour multiplies —
in groups,
in institutions,
in education systems.
The structure tells you:
Learn to get a job.
Get a job to build a family.
Work to provide for that family.
And once you have a family, you repeat it yourself:
“I need this job to provide.”
Eventually you realise something — quietly:
It is safer to stay inside the structure.
It is warm there.
And so people begin to philosophise about meaning, growth, and self-development — from inside the cage.
But that is not growth.
That is theatre.