The Thinking Crisis
The modern world is in a dire need of individuals who think. “What do you mean, I think all the time…”
No, but you aren’t THINKING.
People have opinions, they try to argue sometimes. They either blabber about their baseless claims or slowly unravel their argument, think it through and come to the same conclusion as the person they are trying to win the argument against. They leave ashamed, lost and having lost all faith in themselves. Even after all that, they are ready to do it all over again. They stop thinking, yet again.
People are now fed information and they don’t sit there thinking what this information does to them. Their beliefs come from what a tweet says, how many likes it has and who comments underneath it. When I see people who blindly follow any ideologies, it takes me less than a second to know they haven’t once sat down to utilize their autonomy to think.
When I exercise my ability to think, I see dark patches of insincerity in some of the most renowned pieces of content. You start to see not much is different between you and the people in the higher echelons. You start to see inconsistencies in people. So much you get to know, so much you get to learn. All you had to do was sit there, not stuff your face with food or use your mobile phone. Sit there in utter silence and think about your own life.
I know people, who don’t know where their money goes. Who can’t remember for how much they bought their phone a week ago. How much interest rate they are paying on their debt. They are stuck in this infinite loop of, work, pay, eat, scroll, die. But it’s these people who will be on the front lines rallying for beliefs which they haven’t once thought of. Whatever I say, I make sure to have thought of it well beforehand. Be honest with yourself, when was the last time you sat down in silence and actually THOUGHT about decisions that could alter your lives in a significant way? Just THINKING takes you miles away. It’s the first step.
We can’t even think now. The matrix that you must escape first, is the matrix of your own mind. Because the matrix outside merely is using your own mind against you. Thinking is the first step, planning is the second. Action is the last.
Are you listening? Are you Thinking?
-ZamG
