I think most of us had a rude awakening when we read some lines of this chapter.One of them that make me feel close to this lines was:"como no somos libres no podemos tener la culpa de nada de lo que nos ocurra".What Savater try to say to Amador is that some people think that we are not free really, so they are not responsible for their actions.
When we were at school, we started thinking critically, it means that we learnt that there are differents vision of the reallity,differents ideas and that we 've born in a society, so when we grew up our ideas are partly influenced by this society.
Ithink we confused the idea that our teacher want us to learn.For example I had the idea that our thoughts and decisions are totally influenced by the society and our cultural background and therefore I thought no matter what I do , no matter what I feel ,all my actions were a product of my surroundings.
So, the word "FREEDOM" doesn't take place in my life according to this thougth.But fortunately, during this process of learning I 've found the real idea of all what my teacher try to explain to us,as Savater try to explain to Amador.Now I can see that,of course we need to know our cultural background,different ideas,different points of view,but it doesn't mean we need to follow them or copy them.They are very important because they contribute to our decisions, these differents views, ideas help us to construct our own knowledge an dthen we are FREE to choose what way to follow, what kind of decisions we want to take.But instead of thinking about our bad luck,we can decide what can we do to fight against this bad luck! this mean to be FREE.
