Socratic Mediocrity

I'm down with the fact, literally and figuratively, that people, schools, teachers and adults everywhere aren't opening what ought-to-be eager minds of young people everywhere anymore.

But why aren't they?

What on earrrrrrth are people so afraid of unleashing onto the world?

Individualism? Creativity? Expression? Innovative thinkers? or...gasp! Free thinkers?

Free thinkers are the bain of industries everywhere.

Free thinkers cost pharmaceutical companies, and every other insidious soul leeching industry that exists a lot in lost profit margins.

And for an industry to exist, know it is fundamentally insidious & soulless - it's simply the truth..name one that isn't.....even Mr. heavenly wray shining Ray Anderson's "ecological" carpet manufacturing company with size 2 footprint is horsefaecesy-ing you. Now, had he said in his gentlemanly subtle southern drawl, 'what the hell do we need kilometers of earth killing fake fabric to walk on anyway for? What on earrrrth am I doing here?!' and promptly abandoned everything that he knew all together [i.e.; obscene amounts of money] hitchhiked around the world and thought, then set up shop to made carpets out of 100% hemp...then he'd be less of the Hippocratic school of thought, more Socratically schooled.

But he didn't.

The current school of thought is based on the simple concept: Mediocrity

No natural development and securing strong fundamentals in which to support a cooperative society. That's bad for business.

Somewhere along the line some pampered ponces got damn comfy and supplanted life with Business profit margins and discovered a thinking society is not smart to butt up against.

Dumb 'em down and watch our profits reach outer orbit.

And so it is.

So, instead of letting minds learn about natural things they are innately and organically interested in, they are 'protected' and preserved from ever gleaning any objectivity or vertigo inducing perspective or knowledge of any sort.

So they've been handed, what are described as "tools"....not unlike flint, but not flint - cause flint could actually cause a spark - and that could be dangerous. That would be like putting a sense of power in the hands of a person.....not that a mediocre person should know what to do with it.

So, to protect everyone from open sparks and inflaming thoughts - no one ever comes to know, use or practise their capacity or personal worth...or what could be if only they had struck two stones....

Under the guise of protecting everybody from....what ?! We don't know...the only thing we do know and are told is - we have been protected from it....*....so we can die our predictable death safe and without a sound.

Never knowing 'what' it was we were protected from, but THAT we were kept safe from "it".


In retrospect, in doing & being so...have we not, in essence, killed that which we never allowed to be free? Like...oooo I dunno....honest sentient humanity?

So, what on earrrrrrth is the thinking, and the point in procreating in the first place?

oh riiiiiight, they weren't thinking...*....

cause they were never brought up or taught how to think logically or naturally

(imagine if that is bred out of us?!...seems awffa close at times !!)

So it baffles me how we went from a Socratic approach to growth and learning, to the mediocre milieu were are sitting in now.

Just because others have not mastered their own minds, and chosen to remain stubbornly-arms-crossed-while-holding-their-breath-defiant-as-a-terrible-two-year-old-thereby-acting-out-against-all-natural-and-logical-human-behavior, they have neglected to develop their own selves circumventing any possible acquisition of learning something of WORTH and VALUE to impart to an others own growth and development ch knowledge. I have to be okay with it, that has become the status quo.

Whatever.

It's their life and future. Not mine.

But what a strangle hold they have on everybody and everything who tried to squeak out.