I come from a culture where we are taught, from a very young age, not to question things — especially if a grownup tells it to you. There is even a saying in Afrikaans: Children should be seen and not heard. This attitude stays with us throughout our lives, and it cripples us as clear-thinking Human beings, because we don’t question. In other words: Wê get told something by someone calling themselves an expert and we don’t question it.
Experts are valuable, yes, but you don’t need them to vorm an opinion or to question and think for yourself. Whenever something is Published on Facebook, most people take it for the truth – especially the older generation. It was published somewhere, so it must be so, because it was SAID by a so-called expert – an expert of what? Masturbation, perhaps?
At the hand of the following quotation, I am going to show you just how powerful a different perspective can be. I Came across this quotation on Facebook: “Life Has No Remote, Change It Yourself” I believe this quote is from a person. Called Ben Francia.
A Small Disclaimer
I feel it necessary to first point out to those with limited mental capabilities, or to those that do not understand how to read properly, the following: I am not disparaging this quote. It merely serves as an example to make a point – namely that we can think for ourselves if we choose to do so by questioning everything you read or hear.
Perspective 1
“Life Has No Remote, Change It Yourself”
These are powerful words indeed. You, and you alone, are responsible for your own life. If there are things you don’t like, do something about it. If you want something, work and save for it. There is no such thing as a free lunch – even success needs to be worked for.
Perspective 2
“Life Has No Remote, Change It Yourself”
What absolute excretion of a male animal of the bovine persuasion. Life cannot and should not be compared to a television or a HIFI system that can be operated remotely. Life simply is. And does working a remote not also, by definition, entails an expenditure of energy? First, you have to look around to find the remote, then you need to stick out your hand. After that, you need to pick it UP. Once picked UP, you need to find the correct button, point the device somewhere and then press the button. All of this entails energy expenditure and is therefore work – the same energy and work as in perspective one.
Some clever people refer to this process as “putting on a different pair of glasses”. I call it “the other side of the coin”. If you start to look critically at life, the universe and everything around you; if you question and learn to look at the other side of the coin; if you don’t take things at face value – especially the news media, you will broaden your horizons and you will break the chains the so-called experts and gate keepers of information enslaved modern society with.