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Question Your Education
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein
I am not another skin cell, another copy of ancient knowledge and function born to protect and serve a greater living power. I will not slough off as another cognitive casualty, a carbon copy sheet with my life signed away. I have the right to change, to mutate, to become a societal cancer tearing through the body of the state. The fear, which has long held us in hibernation, is the same tool we must use to strike back against those who would prey on our insecurities. The men who tighten the leash on cultural detractors, to pull us back like dogs on an evening walk when we became too curious about passing ideas and questions. It is not in their best interest for any of us to be secure, educated, informed, or even happy. That is up to us.
Wake up. Get angry. Use that energy to research, to discuss, and debate. You won't always be right but admitting you have been wrong is a step in the 'right' direction. I would rather be found wrong a thousand times over than to discover the foundation of my life was false. That is the weapon they use against us. They know we are naturally insecure and fearful. They mock those who step out of party lines as outcasts, loners, and crackpots. They do not want you to think for yourself. We are not taught to learn in school, we are taught to memorize what they tell us. We are taught to color in the lines. If you want to truly be educated you have to do it yourself. You need to read three different perspectives on the same event or action, and then not decide which one is correct, but take the elements of truth you have discovered in all three of them to form your own opinion. There are a thousand men who will gladly tell you their story before their truth, to every one man who will give you both. The power to discern and evaluate the source of your information is paramount, and absolutely necessary, to the search and action.
The illusion of action and change are friends of the state. One voice will not change it. Yet most people are content to wait around for the next pariah or vocal advocate for their cause, but the power to accomplish what those type of people started is in all of us right now. Great people do not create fervor and passion within us, they unveil it, they make us feel comfortable with letting our true feelings and thoughts out. How do we discover these things? What class is there to teach about self awareness and the intricacies of consciousness? Who teaches us that we can choose to react to our emotions instead of being imprisoned by them?
The only way to stop or slow this cultural, societal, and philosophical downfall is to embrace the power to ask questions, to reason, to form our own opinions, to allow curiosity to permeate all areas of our life, inside and out. Not to accuse or blame, not to use our personal suffering or that of others as a means of self sacrifice, but to simply and plainly, ask questions.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
-- Joseph Aguirre, 1/10/08
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