7/26/16 - What if you were born, and found that your parents weren't actually as adult as you, that they were "the kids"? And then, they tried to teach you things, giving you definitions of right and wrong, punishing you when you disagreed with them? I have a theory that as evolution occurs, an inherent degree of maturity is characteristic of a new-born child. If the new kids are actually more highly evolved than their parents (which might be true to varying degrees), and the parents refused to respect the perspective and input of their child, then what you have is incorrectly assigned roles. Certainly, life-experience is a factor in the question, and should be respected for its factor... But, what when the idea of one's own "life experience" dominates their mind, and they simply consider their selves your inherent superior, even when you logically win conjecture? If I can identify that someone is disregarding valid points that I make, simply on the basis that they assume their selves to be correct, I can no longer entirely respect them as a thinking individual. I take it as evidence that they don't think. Many parents "believe" in their selves, and refuse to question and assess those beliefs with logic. These people do not make valid participants in conversation involving critical inquiry. But, these are the people that controlled your life - on the whole, the life that is given to us by society was constructed by our "parents". When will we stop "believing" in what was done before us, seeing all of the failures it has led us to (war, starvation, bigotry, classism, ect.) and start thinking that we shouldn't take the beliefs we were handed with trust and reverence... Perhaps these beliefs were only the recurrent plague of ignorance characteristic of these "dark ages" before a real enlightenment could occur in history. |