I am told by a few people sometimes not to question. Not to ask too many questions and just accept things as they are. Accept things because that is the way it always has been. People accepted it before you, and so should I. But the people before us are not like us. They did not have the tools to question. They did not have relatively high literacy rates, did not have full access to libraries, educational programs, or even the rights and responsibilities associated with democracy. All these privileges give us the right, the responsibility to question what may seem normal. What has been accepted for hundreds of years. We can learn for ourselves, we ponder, and study. Instead having to travel to hear a scholar or master speak, we can simply go online and look up a youtube video, or even go to the library and read their biography and books. It is all at our fingertips. Our ancestors did not have these benefits and therefore less of them had the ability to fruitfully ponder their reality.
That is the difference, and that is why we should and can challenge the status quo, challenge the hypocrisy of our time, and challenge societies inequalities.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
1 comment:
Every human being should be granted the right to think freely and accordingly ask questions about anything and everything.
This God-given right shouldn't be snatched away from people, and certainly they shouldn't be forced to follow some tediously-typical way of thinking.
Asking questions undoubtedly helps widen people's perceptions and understanding of life at large.
Post a Comment