Thinking.

I came across this article today:

Long Live the Geeks! 

  after watching 'Dangerous Companions' which features Kevin Richardson..

after watching a lengthy debate between John Lennox & Richard Dawkins: Has science buried God?

(on Youtube) 

(This is how time gets so unknowingly wasted away on the internet)

Back to the article, it gave me certain comfort, because it's simply NOT COOL reading & reading, not knowing where it'll all lead to.

  I'm waiting of my copy of (above) to arrive, yo! It was at an "amazing" price of roughly US$4+

I cannot believe that Thoreau's lifework is only worth that price in this day & age. But it harks back to the fact that people nowadays would rather read inconsequential romance novels than this. Perhaps what he said then still cuts deep now, & most people are reluctant to accept that. That's just my opinion, & I'm in no position to implore anyone to agree. Fantasy, romance & other genres which might appear to only possess entertainment value, might have values deeper than what I'd pointed out. But the thing is this: Such fantasies are so detrimental they serve very much to weigh a person down deeper into ignorance & banality in his life.

(No doubt you strengthen your descriptive abilities & the likes in reading those stuff!)

I draw a parallel between indulging in such fantastical culture & adhering to a religion. Both promise certain psychological comfort that a person goes running to in times of hardship. In that sense, I take fancy in neither. But of course, what does that matter as long as the majority holds an open arm to these?

It just bothers me that people hardly ever question what they are told. In a sense, we, who supposedly are being educated with the capacity of the overrated 'critical thinking' (students seriously like to use this term in school!), would eventually go as far as to lead lives of mechanistic automata bound down by political (or otherwise) quietism.

I don't mean to start a political uprising of any sort, but to subject oneself to a life dictated by a larger establishment is as good as living as a voiceless domesticated ox - & that's as good as being dead.

Being too vehement about this stuff has got my argument all discursive. But my points aren't really deep. It only takes a little thinking to realize that the "birth-education-work-retirement" course of life only differs from a functional cattle's in that the said person receives his education, & for a brief period in his life, is made to PROPERLY THINK.