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An indecisive nature can make it hard to ignore bad ideas. Most ideas are bad, after all, but proactive individuals might do something more than to simply resign themselves to fall into them. It's not difficult to come to the point where one would rather make an obviously wrong choice simply to avoid having to think about it. It could well be that this is the way we're supposed to behave. When we evolved this critical thinking thing, who's to say that wasn't a bad idea? After all, look how happy cats are. If we're anything like cats, the entirely random circumstance of our personal conditioning wholly determines our outlook, and our immediate, gut reaction to any given situation ought to be the right idea -- at least for us. Problem being that, thanks to language, we've all grown quite fond of telling each other how to think. And with such sheer volume of entirely random conditions, it's no wonder that so many of us have such trouble making even the simplest of decisions. On the other hand, if we all simply nod our heads and follow arrows, it won't be long before we begin to collide. And so we work together, tirelessly, to create an agreeable average condition which almost none of us completely agree with. And this is where things start to fall in on themselves. Thought itself becomes the enemy of free will. You're meant to operate on a mechanical level. Mostly, you're mundane and repetitive. That may sound boring, but they are, after all, your own mechanics. So we many mechanized warriors march along and, eventually, meet near the edge of the table to bump each other off the edges to untimely deaths. Born again, reincarnate, we frantically spin our wheels in a desperate attempt to go somewhere new, or try something different. You'll never know why, because you're a machine. You don't always know what you're experiencing, but you do, every time, experience it. So the question is, would you rather be your own machine, or everyone else's free-thinker? I suppose this is why so many people just dye their hair.

Category: People
Uploaded: October 13th, 2008 @ 9:02 am
Author: noSocket

Length: 02:23
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