Has the whole world gone crazy?
Today you can’t turn on your t.v. or serf the internet or even talk to someone without seeing or hearing something crazy. Please let me clarify, racist groups rallying aggressively hurting innocent by-standers because their skin isn’t the right color, a guy getting stabbed because of his haircut, forcefully and violently removing statutes from our personal U.S. history, feminists refusing to wash dishes, people calling other people racists because they don’t agree with each other, and the list goes on and on and on.
My question is, has the whole world forgotten how to rationally think? Logic, and facts don’t seem to matter to the general public. I took a logic class in college, and you know what? That class helped me in all my other classes, because instead of me going on my merry way with only my assumptions to go on, it taught me to pull myself out of the situation and look at it from a third person’s perspective or a bird’s eye view, if you will. Now I know a lot of people find pulling themselves out of a situation difficult, and whenever I find myself in one that I can’t pull myself out of, I have people that I go to and ask their opinions of the situation, and because they are on the outside, they see things that I may not, even though I have all the information, but if I’m to invested in the situation, I can be wearing my ‘personal opinion’ glasses and can’t see the forest for the trees, so to speak.
These ‘personal opinion’ glasses are what I think the whole world is wearing, and do they want to take them off? No! That might mean they’re wrong. If they look at this situation logically, they may not have a leg to stand on.
This is what I think is wrong with the world today, they want to be right, even at the expense of facts and logic.
I am going to give an assignment, find a person you trust, not a parrot person (a parrot person is someone who just tells you what you want to hear) and honestly lay out the whole situation (don’t leave anything out) and see what they think. Don’t get upset if they don’t agree with you, don’t leave in a huff if they side with the other person, if they side with the other person, go back, take stock, why am I fighting? Do I really have a problem with this person? Is it really about the things we’re arguing over? Am I holding a grudge against this person, and thus will fight them on anything? Why is this so important to me? Do my opinions line up with a full well rounded view of history?
This is a hard assignment, I know, I’ve had to do this more than a few times. And you know what? Every time I’ve done this, I’ve found that my ‘personal opinion’ glasses got in the way of rational thoughts. Every time I did This, I got to grow as a person, I got to see things from a different perspective, not a wrong perspective mind you, just a different perspective. Whether I was right or wrong, a couple of the benefits I received was learning that being wrong isn’t the end of the world, and that being right didn’t mean I was better then the other person.
Let’s open our minds a bit, we may find out that we’re wrong, we may find out that we’re right, we may find out that neither party is correct, and that we’ve both been misled. Let’s think rationally.