The Most Dangerous Weapon of All
Ideas are dangerous.
Before you scoff remember Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei. Even the fable of Jesus is a tragic parable about the dangers of radical ideas. Radical, in this context being relative to their contemporaneous zeitgeist. In modern times, one need look no further than the likes of Wilhelm Reich, Timothy Leary, Virginia Steen-McIntyre and even Andrew Wakefield was persecuted for nothing more than IDEAS. (Please take notice, before you jump down my throat I am not referring to him as “Doctor”.) Immanuel Velikovsky, an admired and well respected scholar was roundly denunciated and experienced a destruction of his public image by “authorities” such as Carl Sagan, experts who were later found deficient in supporting their criticisms.
Ideas can destroy your career, or see your books burned. In some cases it’s even the US Government that is stoking the furnaces (#1, #2 [Note: As I was researching this topic, I found it interesting that among the MSM outlets that reported this story, ONLY Fox News used the word “burned” to accurately describe the destruction of these books]). For espousing ideas you can be kidnapped and caged. They can assassinate your character or outright kill you. Ideas are very much a dangerous tool.
And we need them. We need more “dangerous” ideas. The morass society finds itself in today requires that we act as adults, engage in dangerous thought & reconsider our role within not only society, but our role within our reality. This writer has heard two wildly different thinkers express the same notion. We all give meaning to each other’s existence. Our ultimate purpose is to be HERE giving meaning to each other, and be here to help each other move beyond what we are now; to be better than we were.
Our world is in chaos and we focus on such a small microcosm, namely our own individual reality tunnels and we forget about the largest open air prison in the history of the world. We choose to ignore the plight of our brothers and sisters because of geographic location, skin color, religion. Sometimes, we even choose to ignore our brothers and sisters because of their ideas.
