Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The allure of the unknown (#823)

Everything within me wants to know more. Just because it is unknown by me does not mean it isn't known by someone else. I could spend well beyond a lifetime just trying to know what has been put away on a shelf somewhere waiting to be discovered. The greatest knowns that I would like to know are the ones that have been hidden from us under the guise of protecting us from ourselves. As if evidence of what we do to each other everyday has not prepared us to know even more of what we do to each other everyday. The secrets that are deemed to be too unsettling, too corruptible or too fantastical should be shown to us. Apparently we think we must be our brothers keeper instead of our brothers helper. My point is this; if ever we are to move beyond the fallacies of assumptions and expectations we will never reach our common goal of enlightenment. The more secrets we keep from each other the more we stay entrenched in the ideal that most of us are not able to think for ourselves. In that scenario the status quo gets to remain basically the same and those who have the power to think for others maintain an advantage that only greed will satisfy. We are better than that but the proof will come when we can show it. To do that we need to be informed about the things that effect us and our personal and societal growth. We have voting age requirements because we tell ourselves that some age is required to have a thought out opinion. Yet the thought out part is left lacking when we only give out less than all the information. Let me be clear here, we are all in this together and our form of government allows us to present our point of view through common agreement by all of us. To do that we all must be made available to the truth of what our world and society is hiding from us. Living in an artificial information world is not the truth of our reality. We can handle the truth, allow us that courtesy.

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