140. challenging thoughts

We learned long ago to follow the rules, do what we’re told, and to not ask questions. The creativity we were born with was “educated” out of us by a system that thrives through conformity, not curiosity. We were told, don’t rock the boat; color inside the lines; stay in your lane; and follow the leader. None of these sound like a life to aspire too, but it is what we were sold. These messages seeped into our consciousness and they ultimately became the framework of how we found our way through life. 

What doesn’t serve the status quo, only seeks to shake its foundations, and if those messages reverberate high enough to reach the top of the ivory tower, they’re quickly silenced. So we fall in line, and continue living within the framework we’ve been sold as truth. But what if it isn’t? What if what we are sold, isn’t helping us ascend to a greater society with better outcomes for everyone? The most troubling thing is not that whatever system we are acquiescing too is right or wrong, but that we aren’t allowed to ask. Without the ability to do so we just accept what is, falling into the trap of collective unconsciousness.

As an armchair rebel, it only makes sense, now more than ever, to seek out and identify those who are held with the highest esteem, in authority, and with domination of the messages we are continuously hearing and challenge them at all levels. Unless a justification for them can be given, they’re illegitimate and should be dismantled to increase the scope of knowledge, truth, and freedom that seems to be drifting further and further away.

So the real question is, do we have a pandemic, or an epidemic of ideas used in such an effective way that people are so conditioned to follow along and not ask questions because they have been programmed what to think, not how to think?