These are not academic arguments, nor are they referenced, these are only thoughts, personal ones. Thoughts of mine. Something spurred me into writing them and putting them here. Maybe to say something, but I think more to give another perspective on adult human life, especially for those who are disheartened with the world.
Our entire educational system is based on indoctrinating children into working for financial benefit. Without money, we're worthless - it's like our whole upbringing we're pushed towards this mantra, and a vast majority of our population accept it; they rise the ladder, earn their paper and they are often unable to think any differently for the most part. Of course, some perceive an injustice in rewarding selfishness with money when so much of the world starve without it, and those sensitive people will reject what they're being bent towards even if they don't quite know why they are rejecting it.
Even children can look at the world and recognize that something is awfully wrong, but my observation is that rarely are children listened to on great matters of the deepest sincerity and poignancy. The great shame is that those few who go against the grain in our society are stuck with labels like 'defective', 'anti-social', 'rebellious' and 'unruly'. We adults, as part of an apparently civilized society, would not dream of imprisoning another human being and forcing them to think like us, because we value freedom and choice and human rights. Yet we happily send children to a room for six hours a day to learn things they never asked to be taught, and we have the audacity to tell them that they are being unreasonable when they reject what is forced upon them.
I wonder what a child might say if we were to show them the true issues of the world, that we, as adults are so conditioned to seeing? If we allowed them to question to practices we enforce on them? The teachings we impart on them? If they could speak with eloquence and intricacy as adults, yet retain all their perspectives, what might they say?
Many days of our lives, we humans live in duality between what we would really see for ourselves, and what is, between what we really think, and what's spoken, between what we really observe, and what's testified to, between what's our genuine opinion, and what we're supposed to think, between what we hoped we could be, and what we became, between what we value, and between what we're supposed to value, between what we truly know, and what we let others think we know.
We live in a society of markedly aggressive personalities, where spite is often rewarded with applause, where anger is second nature, where negative attention is attention-wanted so often because everybody is vying for the attention of others, all the time. We live in a world where our technological advances were supposed to make the world better, yet we are so inundated with information that it has only served to make us feel small, overlooked, insignificant and unworthy - just like children whose opinions on larger things are overlooked as insignificant.
And we live in a world where we think we are the only ones. Only we could understand. Only we go through it all. Only we know best. Only we could possibly feel this way. Only adults have real problems. We so often live in a world so removed from true, benevolent human intimacy that we are all alone, yet few realize how together we are in that.
We live in a world so wrought with duality, animosity, sides and flags that we often forget we are the same species. We get so wrapped up in causes and battles we forget that the greatest battle is with oneself. We get so wrapped up in the confusions we face, in the questions we ask and the answers we crave taht we forget the greatest joys of life lie in the quietest, simplest, most innocent moments. We become so hateful against hate that we forget what hate against us felt like when we didn't hate anybody. We forget what hate brings, what it has always brought - more hate.
Everybody, I would urge you wholeheartedly, contact your inner child and ask them what they think of war, ask them what they think of hate, ask them what they think is truly important.
Our entire educational system is based on indoctrinating children into working for financial benefit. Without money, we're worthless - it's like our whole upbringing we're pushed towards this mantra, and a vast majority of our population accept it; they rise the ladder, earn their paper and they are often unable to think any differently for the most part. Of course, some perceive an injustice in rewarding selfishness with money when so much of the world starve without it, and those sensitive people will reject what they're being bent towards even if they don't quite know why they are rejecting it.
Even children can look at the world and recognize that something is awfully wrong, but my observation is that rarely are children listened to on great matters of the deepest sincerity and poignancy. The great shame is that those few who go against the grain in our society are stuck with labels like 'defective', 'anti-social', 'rebellious' and 'unruly'. We adults, as part of an apparently civilized society, would not dream of imprisoning another human being and forcing them to think like us, because we value freedom and choice and human rights. Yet we happily send children to a room for six hours a day to learn things they never asked to be taught, and we have the audacity to tell them that they are being unreasonable when they reject what is forced upon them.
I wonder what a child might say if we were to show them the true issues of the world, that we, as adults are so conditioned to seeing? If we allowed them to question to practices we enforce on them? The teachings we impart on them? If they could speak with eloquence and intricacy as adults, yet retain all their perspectives, what might they say?
Many days of our lives, we humans live in duality between what we would really see for ourselves, and what is, between what we really think, and what's spoken, between what we really observe, and what's testified to, between what's our genuine opinion, and what we're supposed to think, between what we hoped we could be, and what we became, between what we value, and between what we're supposed to value, between what we truly know, and what we let others think we know.
We live in a society of markedly aggressive personalities, where spite is often rewarded with applause, where anger is second nature, where negative attention is attention-wanted so often because everybody is vying for the attention of others, all the time. We live in a world where our technological advances were supposed to make the world better, yet we are so inundated with information that it has only served to make us feel small, overlooked, insignificant and unworthy - just like children whose opinions on larger things are overlooked as insignificant.
And we live in a world where we think we are the only ones. Only we could understand. Only we go through it all. Only we know best. Only we could possibly feel this way. Only adults have real problems. We so often live in a world so removed from true, benevolent human intimacy that we are all alone, yet few realize how together we are in that.
We live in a world so wrought with duality, animosity, sides and flags that we often forget we are the same species. We get so wrapped up in causes and battles we forget that the greatest battle is with oneself. We get so wrapped up in the confusions we face, in the questions we ask and the answers we crave taht we forget the greatest joys of life lie in the quietest, simplest, most innocent moments. We become so hateful against hate that we forget what hate against us felt like when we didn't hate anybody. We forget what hate brings, what it has always brought - more hate.
Everybody, I would urge you wholeheartedly, contact your inner child and ask them what they think of war, ask them what they think of hate, ask them what they think is truly important.
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