Thinking Big: Your Right to Intellectual Freedom
For just a moment think back to the earliest days of your youth (for most of us our memory may take us back to sometime between 3 and 5 years old) and in your mind think about all the time you spent playing with your friends. Do you remember the types of games you played? Can you recall the curiosity you displayed? How wonderful it is to think back to the times when our minds were unencumbered by the “rules” that so often shape our thinking patterns later in life.
Can you think of a time when you played a game so imaginative that the current version of you would simply deem it impossible to think as freely as that again?
When did you stop thinking and acting so freely?
For most of the children of America their state-ordered indoctrination begins as soon as we drop them off for their first day of schooling. From that point on they are administered in a way that subjugates them to the role of an order-follower, a subservient human to anyone with a badge of “authority”, and are taught a curriculum that their free-will or genuine interests or inclinations have no say in.
For the next 12 years they will be conditioned, year after year, into a human that has been stripped of the ability to think for themself. This is simply the fate of most children subjected to this type of training. In the spirit of the Rockerfellian dogma that established the public school system as we know it today, they will become the perfect worker bee for the American corporate machine.
Do what you are told and don’t ask too many questions.
Is this system vital to the proliferation of the power and influence of the American Empire? Yes.
Should it be the fate of every American child who falls into the bucket of a public education? No.
It is our right as Humans to think for ourselves, and our duty to nurture in the coming generations the same power of independent thought and judgement that composes the very fabric of our individualism.
We are enamored by the romantic artists of the world. The writers who make us cry, the composers who make us lust, and the painters who make us wonder. We love the free-thinkers. Yet at the same time we throw our children into a machine that is sure to turn them away from the forces of creative genius we love to marvel at on our stages and in our galleries.
Looking back on the recollections of your youth, what stories were you told that caused you to stop thinking so freely?
Did they tell you that you had to grow up, and that meant not thinking so big?
Did they tell you that your dreams were impossible, and you needed to be more reasonable?
Why did you believe them?
Imagine if Edison, or Tesla, or the Wright Brothers had listened to the stories that their critics told.
Imagine if Elon Musk had decided to “grow up” and stop dreaming so big.
Imagine if you decided to start thinking big again.
- Warren Steury
