“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
— Socrates
Great quote from Socrates, and it’s true, yet it’s difficult since the old ways & people are almost always fighting anything new.
The old whom are cemented in their beliefs and ways of living – cannot comprehend other ways of life. They hold on and they fight the new.
So we can’t change that, but we can focus on creating something new.
And when enough people believe in the new more than the old, then the new manifests itself. Or when there is enough research and scientific study supporting the new.
But again, it’s not easy to lead new ways of living and thinking – since so many people are stuck in old ways and fight the new.
Even if something new is healthy and beneficial for a range of people, for example, psilocybin mushrooms are medicine, is scientifically proven to be beneficial for people, and it is becoming decriminalized and legalized medicinally – but we live in societies in the USA that grew up in education systems that didn’t teach any factual drug education – they just repeated “all drugs are bad,” while I’m sure all those teachers were taking prescription pills…
blind leading the blind … people repeating what they’re told and not thinking for themselves … that’s not new. That’s old.
But a new way is here and it is called actually educating people with facts & science and research and not just repeating something you heard from a teacher who knows nothing about drugs.
Anyway, this is just one of the many new ways of living and new ways of medicine that is trying to become part of life in a healthy way – yet the old drunk and angry political men are so cemented in their hate and anger and ignorance that they won’t even take 1 minute to see actual scientific proof that mushrooms are healthy for people.
So, yes, we the new, will continue working toward new ways and new medicines.
Science, research & positive results support us – even if any old angry ignorant fools fight the Truth.
One day intelligence will overcome ignorance, but for now we must keep creating and cultivating the new ways of life.
With Ken Thompson 