How Does Perspective Influence Us?

We tend think as if we lived inside a bubble. Everything outside of it doesn't exist and it isn't possible. Not many people tend to disagree with what is being said. I came to think about this at the end of Frederick Douglass' memoir. I realized conformity is  one of the many reasons people agree to bizarre ideas such like the earth is the center of the universe. We sometimes are very narrow minded and don't see the essence of things until it is shown to us.  Such thing happened to Frederick Douglass when it came the realization of the erroneous image he had the North after he became a free man. 

I was impressed by the way Douglass thought the North was going to be like. He had learned growing up that slavery was the best that could happen to the economy, though he didn't agree with its means. By this I mean the cruel treatment of slaves. He was brainwashed since he was a little boy that the North was worse because of their lack of slavery. Obviously this was true for Douglass until he actually lived it. Nevertheless, the impression Douglass has "received respecting the character and condition of the people of the north, [He] found to be singularly erroneous" (Pg.).This is the result from his isolation. He didn't know what the north was like, and so he created an image he thought to be true.  He "had very strangely supposed, while in slavery, that few of the comforts, and  scarcely any of the luxuries, of life were enjoyed at the north, compared with what were enjoyed by the slaveholders of the south"(Pg.). 

However Douglass simply didn't jump into this conclusion, he thought that "in the absence of slaves, there could be no wealth, and very little refinement"(Pg.).  meaning that the north was very poor due to their lack of slaves. 

Furthermore, this happened a long time ago during WWII. People had the conception that jewish people were inferior. They had been brainwashed into believing something that was incorrect, simply because they hadn't been taught the right thing. Consequently, to stop this from happening we have to move out of the bubble, and stop conforming society. Speaking up, and knowing everything will be the only way we will advance and things will change. Though we might not know we are being deceived, we should not simply say "yes" because that's what they say.