06-30-2010, 05:31 AM
Isn't it true that all men seek happiness? Isn't it true that all men avoid pain? Isn't it further true that these motivators combined with a lot of confusion can allow a lot of evil to exist?
Unfortunately a message is only a message if it gets across undistorted... We can look at the message of the two gentlemen and see they have been severely distorted by now.
This is not the fault of the majority. The majority's predicament is that they allow others to think for them. That they put value into messages that come from outside of themselves.
I've heard an example a guy living on a beach front wakes up from an earth quake, a big one. So he naturally evacuates the building as quickly as possible. But he encounters no one on the stairs down. Then outside he starts jogging towards the hills to avoid a potential tsunami. And as he's walking he sees people outside and on balconies looking around, scratching their chins and heading back to bed.
The tsunami risk was real. No one panicked, everyone pretended nothing happened, and therefore everyone went back to bed.
This is the same. As long as we can pretend nothing is going wrong we can all stay in bed. The oil disaster cannot be denied. Something is wrong. Perhaps people will wake up now.
Unfortunately a message is only a message if it gets across undistorted... We can look at the message of the two gentlemen and see they have been severely distorted by now.
This is not the fault of the majority. The majority's predicament is that they allow others to think for them. That they put value into messages that come from outside of themselves.
I've heard an example a guy living on a beach front wakes up from an earth quake, a big one. So he naturally evacuates the building as quickly as possible. But he encounters no one on the stairs down. Then outside he starts jogging towards the hills to avoid a potential tsunami. And as he's walking he sees people outside and on balconies looking around, scratching their chins and heading back to bed.
The tsunami risk was real. No one panicked, everyone pretended nothing happened, and therefore everyone went back to bed.
This is the same. As long as we can pretend nothing is going wrong we can all stay in bed. The oil disaster cannot be denied. Something is wrong. Perhaps people will wake up now.