Thinking is mans only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the name-less act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit. The act of blanking out, the willful suspension of ones consciousness, the refusal to think--not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment--on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict It is. Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say It is, you are refusing to say I am. By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: Who am I to know?--he is declaring: Who am I to live? (...) To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.---ATLAS SHRUGGED Veritas. Absolute Truth. Irrationality, willful ignorance, a simple and precious but not acted upon HOPE...all of this has sown what we are reaping and what has yet to be reaped. Why are things becoming so expensive? Why are soooo many people dying from cancer and generally becoming so unhealthy? Why is genuine happiness, not the faked, becoming more rare? Why are we increasingly in a police state? The answer is in the quoted material. Dont blame your parents, dont blame your teachers past and present, dont blame the media, dont blame Obama or Bush or Congress or your neighbor, dont blame God, dont blame Christianity, atheism, communism, capitalism, fascism...blame yourself. We need to increasingly take ownership now. Not later. Now. Ownership over our thoughts, our existence, our reality, our future. Our collective actions have obviously trended towards death. That is why there is so much of it. Thought is life; non-thought is death. How appropriate that massive zombie-mania has overwhelmed our entertainment media...we truly, unthinking creatures such as we choose to be, are The Undead.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 14:21:35 +0000
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