Most of us can agree on the fact that we do not have a sustainable economy, culture, or environment. If you disagree, then you are either maintaining contradictions in your mind, are uneducated, or you don’t have an opinion on the subject because you are too busy living life and accomplishing things (in which case, stay right there! Ignorance is bliss). For those that do agree, we can also agree that we need change. Big change.
Most people I know, when they approach these issues, try to apply their already existing knowledge and experience to specific circumstances. Nothing wrong with that, seems normal. But what if we’re not questioning the foundation of what we know? What if the foundation of all our critical thought was based on lies? We would never know, and we would all be chasing our tails trying to find the right answers to this change we need. Changing someone’s mind (or your own mind) on any given issue is tough, mainly because of our ego. People don’t like realizing they’re wrong, even when it’s just them proving themselves wrong and there isn’t another person or party to “guard” themselves against. But changing the very foundation of how one thinks? How life works, how society works, “obvious” rights and wrongs… that’s a whole different ball game.
We need to stop being afraid of challenging our entire foundation, ESPECIALLY when we can agree that it has led us to unsustainability. We need to start digging deeper, and questioning things that we chalk up as “truth.”
Most people I know, when they approach these issues, try to apply their already existing knowledge and experience to specific circumstances. Nothing wrong with that, seems normal. But what if we’re not questioning the foundation of what we know? What if the foundation of all our critical thought was based on lies? We would never know, and we would all be chasing our tails trying to find the right answers to this change we need. Changing someone’s mind (or your own mind) on any given issue is tough, mainly because of our ego. People don’t like realizing they’re wrong, even when it’s just them proving themselves wrong and there isn’t another person or party to “guard” themselves against. But changing the very foundation of how one thinks? How life works, how society works, “obvious” rights and wrongs… that’s a whole different ball game.
We need to stop being afraid of challenging our entire foundation, ESPECIALLY when we can agree that it has led us to unsustainability. We need to start digging deeper, and questioning things that we chalk up as “truth.”
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