There are some things that must be said again. It's hard to make yourself be understood sometimes, right? Sometimes you may wonder if the world is upside down or if it was always this way. You may think you're thinking arrogantly, committing a crime thought, when you not only realize that several people are extremely stupid as well as you realize that they are really this way. All your dreams of a better world are broken into pieces. Should then we stop dreaming and aiming to build a new world?
No. The question is that we have to ponder about our and others' attitudes. And pondering is something that people seem to have forgotten or never seen on the pages of a dictionary. We see duality in almost everything, everywhere. Maybe this is a reflexion of our laziness or even incapacity or fear to think on our own.
We live in a time that people have a waterfall of information over the internet but they are still alienated to what they see on TV or read on newspapers and magazines. Are journalists philosophers, gods of truth? Is journalism that trustworthy people think it is? Should we stop believing them? No, as long as pay close attention to their intentions and ponder of the facts they present. Maybe this lack of ethics in journalism reflects a society that have a poor education and take every headline as a irrefutable truth. The journalists are their conductors.
People may behave in an arrogant way just because they read some books, specially some written by respected worldwide philosophers. People may read but not catch the essence. You also may haven't read a book in your whole life and be as intelligent as someone graduated in philosophy. Arrogance is nothing but a reflection of someone that relies on people's view of himself, of a society that is too concerned in what you seem to be, not in what you really are, think and feel. Should then we stop concerning of what people may think of us? Not exactly. Let's ponder!
We are living in a time that we have chew information for us just assume them as correct. What's wrong and what's right? Who said that and what was their intention? It was for everybody's good or some people good? We should start thinking not only about the world but mainly about ourselves. Why is self-criticism seen as something negative, as if the one who practices this exercises doesn't love himself? Being humble became a sin? Why do we have to always show to people that we born to impress them?
I insist: we have to ponder of everything and the concepts of everything: right, wrong, good, evil, etc. People are behaving mechanically, like computers. They download packages of ideologies and philosophies. They don't think of it, they don't contest the controversies. They are unable to think independently and dare to think differently. They don't have the guts to see inconvenient truths and give up of their blind and comfortable passions. They are too concerned about their image face to the society even when they say they aren't.
And finally they are used to complain about the world they are living today. Blind ones. They can't notice that the world is the “shit” they say it became because people are too concerned in impressing others. If they could think, if they could ponder, maybe we could live in a better world.
