There's a saying... "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink".
I have another one... "You can tell a person anything but you cannot make them think."
People are Sheep - Sheeple. A mindless mass that, while thinking itself mentally evolved, is dumber than dirt and Chooses to accept the Fantasies it grew up with in favor of a truth - any truth. And when I say "Dumb" I am not referring to Academic Intelligence or an ability to pass a Math Test or other Govt Approved Education. No. I am talking about the ability to Think, to Reason. To Deduce and Induce. To Conclude based on rational thought and logic. To have an independent thought that wasn't first put into their head by the media, politicians, lobby groups, religious leaders or by someone at work repeating gossip.
Without thinking rationally, we aren't too much better than any animal walking around on all fours. Sure we can communicate and share ideas and concepts with that communication. Sure we can operate heavy machinery and the like. But what truly sets us apart is our ability to Think. To create in our mind and then make real. And to figure out truth from fiction. To look at our own actions and determine if they are best, and to decide that Rationally.
When faced with such a small way to define ourselves you'd think it easy to see it present in all Humanity. But you do not. Most Want to keep hold of their Ignorance. Most do not question, themselves let alone anything else. And if a point is raised that would cause a thought in their head, they remark how Odd you are, that you don't get out much, need a different hobby, or some other remark to avoid having to think themselves.
And when the masses blindly accept things without their own thinking, and the accepting has a detrimental effect on all and they do it any way, then I give up on humanity. And I think, humorously, I must have been abducted by Aliens and accidentally replaced on Stupid Earth in the Stupid Dimension instead of Thinking Earth where they took me from.
Is there a cure for Them?
Yep. To remove themselves from the Mob. To Stop socializing at the coffee shop and weekend parties all the time. To Isolate themselves from society. Avoid the newspaper and the TV News. Toss the Gossip Mags. Etc. This will Begin to free their mind to think on its own accord. Of course, one side effect will see them also give up on humanity HA!
But Alas, humanity will Not change. They will not Come To Their Senses. The all knowing eye grows larger and larger by the year. Watching time increases. Thinking time decreases. And things will be as they have been for quite a long time. A read of the 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness Of Crowds (it's free) should dispel any idea that humanity, as a group, can change. "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one!"
Galileo and Copernicus know too well what the Mob Mind can do. And how resistant it was to new ideas that could set it free of a flat Earth at the center of the Solar System.
Those killed by the Spanish Inquisition also know how Insane groups can be with a Group Mindless Mind.
Look at the Muslim suicide Bombers. More delusion group mind brainwashing UnThink from them.
And on and on it goes. From extreme at the one end to mild at the other. But it is there. Insidious. Infecting everyone who allows themselves to be infected and effected.
But don't expect a change. People won't change... because... what would their friend's think?
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