ignorance

“The man who obeys his own mind is accused of rebellion by those who never used theirs.”

Education is powerful – real education – and not just repeating something you hear.

Real education involves using your own mind. Reading. Thinking. Learning.

And to not just conform to being a mindless lifeless nothing of a person.

Governments love mindless obedient servants, and if a real genius or real spiritual teachers arrives on the planet – the government does what it can to shut them up, since the government doesn’t want educated citizens. They want scared obedient slaves.

They want people to give up their own mind, their own education, to conform to being an ignorant, scared, anxious, person.

And then you can take all the prescription pills from big pharma to make it so you’re numb to what the government has actually done to you.

OR!! You can say no. To the government. They do not own you, or me, or anyone.

Well maybe they own you, but they don’t own me.

I am my own master. I use my mind. I learn.

I lead my life, and I don’t let any mindless ignorant fearful conformists get in my way. Trust me, they’ve tried.

And for a year or two I really wondered how so many people have given up their own mind – and why they did so…

fear, probably. Maybe to fit in with all the other no-minded “people” ..

who knows, but I will never ever give up my mind and my education to fit in with ignorant, mindless, dead-minded people.

“…He asked, “Where are you today, right now?”

Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. Still, I told him about my distant and recent past and about my inexplicable depressions. He listened patiently and intently, as if he had all the time in the world, until I finished several hours later.

“Very well,” he said. “But you still have not answered my question about where you are.”

“Yes I did, remember? I told you how I got to where I am today: by hard work.”

“Where are you?”

“What do you mean, where am I?”

“Where Are you?” he repeated softly.

“I’m here.”

“Where is here?”

“In this office, in this gas station!” I was getting impatient with this game.

“Where is this gas station?”

“In Berkeley?”

“Where is Berkeley?”

“In California?”

“Where is California?”

“In the United States?”

“On a landmass, one of the continents in the Western Hemisphere. Socrates, I…”

“Where are the continents?

I sighed. “On the earth. Are we done yet?”

“Where is the earth?”

“In the solar system, third planet from the sun. The sun is a small star in the Milky Way galaxy, all right?”

“Where is the Milky Way?”

“Oh, brother,” I sighed impatiently, rolling my eyes. “In the universe.” I sat back and crossed my arms with finality.

“And where,” Socrates smiled, “is the universe?”

“The universe is well, there are theories about how it’s shaped…”

“That’s not what I asked. Where is it?”

“I don’t know – how can I answer that?”

“That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of what anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery. My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.”

Dare To Use Your Mind

Where are you really? By Dan Millman