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"My mind is a piece of shit right now." -Jack Rebney

know1 wrote:

Abookamongstthemany wrote:

In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself. ~ Gandhi

This is one that I disagree with because I think it's a contradiction. It is basically saying that people need to rely on society to teach them to think for themselves.

I think it would be a far better thing for people to just think for themselves as opposed to waiting for someone or something to TEACH them to think for themselves.

And what if they are taught to think for themselves in a manner that doesn't align with their true nature or the way they would think for themself naturally? In other words, society could have bias when it is doing the teaching.

A true democracy does teach you HOW TO think for yourself. You may be mixing the teaching of thought by a democracy and what a democracy is presenting for you to think about. That make sense ? For example, lines on the road are there for order (not in all places), you get my drift though ? If branches from previous person's here in society didn't set ground rules we would have a chaos beyond the one we are experiencing now. Lets take buying and selling because it is a perfect opportunity for people to think for themselves. But, the powers that be spend billions of dollars on marketing to shape & direct our thought process to buy the trend of the week. A true democracy would not have this profiteering going on. We do think naturally because we are of this earth. We are a species. Instinct (you automatically feel something isn't right...that's natural) A democracy would let that flourish by telling you, think for yourself as you see the things around you & ask questions. But a catch of-course. If we were told, for example, to question authority, the powers at be would not be able to cheat us because as we thought for ourselves, we would think, 'TIME TO BRING THESE FUCKERS DOWN.'

Swaying opinion is big business my friend. The scary thing about it, for me, is how subtle it is.
But with all that said, I don't think Gandghi meant teach people to think. I believe he was saying," teach them HOW TO think." Also, someone has to guide you as you grow in thought. Be it authors, mothers, musicians, or fathers, we need to be raised. It just is.

"The only knowledge is experience." - Alberta Einstein

Technology, or the historical momentum of things, is creating such a bewildering social milieu that the monkey mind cannot find a simple story, a simple creation myth or redemption myth to lay over the crazy contradictory patchwork of profane techno-consumerist post-McLuhanist electronic pre-apocalyptic existence. Into that dimension of anxiety created by this inability to parse reality rushes a bewildering variety of squirrelly notions, epistemological cartoons if you will. Conspiracy theory, in my humble opinion, is a kind of epistemological cartoon about reality.—Terence McKenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time

People say, "Don't you think you ought to be able to do it by yourself?" And I love this question because the answer is: You can't do it by yourself. That's the entire message of the last 10,000 years of human history. The self is insufficient. The ego will not suffice...you must humble yourself to the point where you admit that you can't do it unless you have help from someone whose idea of home is a cow flop.—Terence McKenna

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.....JH


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