The pursuit of truth
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.” — Anais Nin.
Is this a rant about the big bad system? Maybe. Read on to decide for yourself.
I believe that a true education system would allow you know to question every source of information we have at our disposal. The credibility of it. We are in an age where a misogynistic reality TV corporate mogul is a world leader. Can we really believe the information we are being fed through different mediums when most of the news channels are run by giant corporate houses? Everyone seems like a sellout. News channels. Politicians. Activists.
Everyone has an agenda.
Everyone has sold their soul to the corporate devil. I’m being made to believe what they want me to believe. How can I see things for what they truly are in a situation like this. It’s like an episode of black mirror. But only that it is not going to happen in future. Its already happening.
I’m skeptical in a world where it is criminal to question those in authority. Extremists all around ready to pounce on anyone who has a different set of beliefs. I’m being manipulated to speak a script which will fuel the power hungry system. Why is it wrong to question the status quo?
Most of us are turning a blind eye to what is actually happening around us. A filmstar’s latest affair is more of a topic of conversation than the current state of affairs of the world.
We are being conditioned to become materialistic puppets whose strings are held by those who run the system.
Do I have a solution to change this?
Maybe.
Encourage your kids to question and argue. Debate but not ridicule
Stand up for what you believe in
But don’t let that turn in to blind faith
Educate yourself outside school as well .
Learn not just from the books but from people and nature and experience.
And I am going to quote Anais Nin again who said ‘There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.’
So keep looking. Keep questioning.
