I think the problem with a lot of people these days in my daily world I live in, is that so many people are stuck walking the same track, over and over again.
Even tho' I can't hardly read a note of music (thanks to my maths disability), I got stuck in chorus in high school. My music teacher was against having a school band, and would not allow us to learn any new music. The man, who I do believe was born with a rod stuck up his arse, would puff up and spout the mantra: "People don't know what they like, they like what they know."
True. People do have a tendency to prefer the familar, or to go along with mob thinking, or the current popular thought, or latest celebrity trend.
Folks so often fail to step back, and see the big picture, to turn the thing they are observing, or watching, or listening to, over in their mind, to see it from all possible angles.
Why? Because it's not always convenient or comfortable to do that, I suppose. It can be scary, setting out on your own, to think your own thoughts and try and form your own independant conclusions.
People tend to treat the world around their little circles, as if it were still flat----whether intentionally or not---as black and white. They aren't comfortable with grey, let alone with a whole rainbow of colours. Why strike out on your own, and climb the moutnain or ford the river of intellecutal and personal independence, when it's far easier to follow the herd across the level plain.
Cultural bias, personal fears and/or bigotry, the way we were raised, how we choose to personally educate ourselves, how much personal responsiblity we take for our behaviours, actions, feelings and thoughts--all this comes into play, and dictates who we are, and what part of the outside world we choose to make a part of our daily life each day.
Technically, in the world of the information superhighway, 400 channel television, mobile phones, faxes, blackberries, free electronic books, we should be able to grasp the rainbow, and allow it to colour our thoughts....so, why are so many people, isolating themselves?
Why are so many people, building invisible bubbles around themselves, to block out the rainbow? Insecurity? Fear of the unknown? Reality overload?
More and more, society has taken away the rules. Adults don't care. Parents don't pay any attention to how they or their children behave, people lash out at folks they don't even know, with verbal or written abuse, without any thought behind it, like a dumb animal lashing it's tail at a harmless butterfly that's floating by.
Rules and manners, courtesy and respect, are the foundations of civilization. Independent thought, abstract thinking, going outside your selfish little world to care about someone or something other than yourself...these are the things that build up the walls that define our very civilization....tear them down, and you destroy human kind, evenutally, reintroducing fear, irrational behaviour and mindless hate to humanity...sloping down into the dark ages, and closing off the light of positive change and grownth and development, forever. RIP human evolution.
