Some stuff
You know what I hate? Talking about politics.
You know what I hate even more? People who think because I don't talk about politics, I don't know anything about politics. It turns out I really do care about what happens in the government of my country. I love my country. I don't, however, love talking about matters that everyone wants to complain about and nobody wants to propose an alternative solution to.
What really bothers me most is that people are more than willing to complain about everything in the world, and nobody sits down to think about what can be done about it.
Honestly, the only reason I can think of for a thing like this to happen is because people don't believe that there's anything they can do about it, even though they have the desire to help. The notion has been crammed into everyone's brain that what they think doesn't matter. They don't bother to sit down and think of a way that they might be heard. Honestly, the only reason a thought doesn't matter is because nobody ever hears about it.
Can anyone be expected to understand genius unexpressed?
People are afraid of looking foolish or ignorant and say nothing, but it seems to me that if we never sound foolish, we'll never be able to sound intelligent. Some of the greatest minds in history have made some of the most ignorant statements. They just had the guts to say it.
People are smart.
At least, they are when they choose to use their minds. I think one of the hardest things in this world is to cut through all of the external programming, advertising, and propoganda and discover what you really think, even if you don't talk about it very often.
You know what I hate even more? People who think because I don't talk about politics, I don't know anything about politics. It turns out I really do care about what happens in the government of my country. I love my country. I don't, however, love talking about matters that everyone wants to complain about and nobody wants to propose an alternative solution to.
What really bothers me most is that people are more than willing to complain about everything in the world, and nobody sits down to think about what can be done about it.
Honestly, the only reason I can think of for a thing like this to happen is because people don't believe that there's anything they can do about it, even though they have the desire to help. The notion has been crammed into everyone's brain that what they think doesn't matter. They don't bother to sit down and think of a way that they might be heard. Honestly, the only reason a thought doesn't matter is because nobody ever hears about it.
Can anyone be expected to understand genius unexpressed?
People are afraid of looking foolish or ignorant and say nothing, but it seems to me that if we never sound foolish, we'll never be able to sound intelligent. Some of the greatest minds in history have made some of the most ignorant statements. They just had the guts to say it.
People are smart.
At least, they are when they choose to use their minds. I think one of the hardest things in this world is to cut through all of the external programming, advertising, and propoganda and discover what you really think, even if you don't talk about it very often.
posted by Matt at 10:06 PM
1 Comments:
thats why i gave up talking about politics-i follow and have a few complaints but unless i've come up with a solution i try to just keep quiet...i havent seen you in a while-come visit!
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starr
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