... See I was on a road trip to Algonquin Park with a buddy and a buddy of my buddy. I'll call them Hippie and the friend just for anonymous purposes... Anyhow it was the ride back and all the discussions we had on the week-end that made me think. Up to a certain point, we all reach some sort of equal threshold as far as it comes to critical thinking... I mean, many of us do not apply it everyday or some days... or just ever but we still all have the skills, technically acquired through the institutional education system. Believe you me, I spent the whole week-end arguing with the Hippie and the friend... Well I came up with many conclusions but only one I believe might have far-reaching possibilities tentaculing in front of itself... pardon my literary freedom on this one.
Anyhow, I believe that if we all had access and knowledge of the same data, in 2/3 of the times, we would agree.
I believe that a fundamental barrier to comprehension and dialogue is a misconception and blatant ignorance (Well the information is usually obscure so use this one with discretion) of facts based on it's method of reliance. The world of today gets it's information from so many sources. In many circumstances, this is a boon as it stops the elite from misappropriating the news and to manipulate the distribution of data to their advantage. An issue is that of the present, most medias of different names are still all held under only a disparate numbers of paramount umbrellas who impose their agendas but that shall not be the discussion of today, but we will definitely come back to it, just remind me...
But, to come back to the disparate dispersion of data. An issue of today is that news have actually moved from their neutral position from a century ago and have now definitely moved into the opinion section. As much as the reporters try to be neutral we can always read an intention within the choice of words, the structure of the phrases, just within the shadowed and exposed positions of the story. It is only through a research of the story and different medias that one can actually find a clear picture of the issue.
A problem with today's society is that it always living in the now. I mean, it is better to live today than dwell within the past but to a certain point, history actually really does have something to tell us. Understanding of our past can only help us understand the present and try to predict the future. I would not venture to be able to predict the future but from the facts I have accumulated I can pose certain hypothesis.
The main argument between societies does not extend to misunderstanding but to an incomplete understanding of the data available. Only from the past can we have a telling of the future. See, most people see events only as disparate things, the day news... or a week stories, or nowadays when they have nothing to write about.. a month old story (trial stories), but current society needs change, Snap, Snap, Snap, People live in the moment but we have lost the whole perspective... yes 100 years ago is really old but what is happening today, no matter what, is still a direct consequence of then, and that is something that modern society has been forgetting.
The hubris of the modern society shall be it's Achilles Heel. People have forgotten to look to their roots, the origins, people of today live claiming the right to old age security, pension plans and others... Do they truly understand that they are the first in a thousand generation to actually get this benefit? How can they claim it is inhumane to survive on the benefits they receive... I will not disagree the amounts... for today's prices it's ridiculous, someone who rents would have more than a hard time surviving on the meager amounts of OAS, CPP and GIS.
But stop there....... Do they realize they are the first generation entitled to this kind of benefit?? I mean we are the ones who are actually paying for those pensions.... and we believe there might have been some misconceptions and unrealistic statistic used in their plans paying for their today's pensions, because, so happens, we're the ones paying for them, which I don't really mind if it wasn't for something I'm a million times more afraid of....
Do you Understand, that us, thirties people pensions, will be paid for mostly by the people who are in their current teens, early twenties... I don't know about you but, I understand the elder generation was worried about us but even with our Demonic Metal music, drug-trying, raves, techno, we still held somewhat the elder in respect and behaved within the realms of society, i mean we pushed but we rioted at least for social causes not for drunkenness... yes times two! The teens of today have lost all control and understanding... Now, I'm only 27 but believe you me, back in my days if you were 12 and saw a 20 years old, you didn't walk up to him and call him names in a row, than run away and even get back to it many times.... we actually held our elders if not in respect, in a fearful respect..... Might be the wrong one but god damn it, at least it was still respect...
I believe in physical punishment, I've known it, most people I know have known it and we all agree today, we needed the lessons, they hurt, but they stuck and we're still doing some of those things today because of yesterday's lessons. There has been a lost in the right to education of parents. Slowly throughout the decades, the education systems have been slowly whittling at the rights of parents to raise their own children....
It is about time, some of us remember that the origins of society and state was a contract made between the citizens and the state. We acknowledged to submit to certain rules for the right to enjoy the security and other benefits of society, somehow through time they have been slowly through centuries whittling at those original rights our ancestors agreed to. If they were presented with today's rules, they would laugh and go to war and joyfully die for their honor and right to freedom.... Today's society has lost it's roots and is in deep need of renaissance and rediscovery, we have surrendered our most basic rights and freedom and haven't even realized it... We're truly not far from the exploited cattle used, worked and abused through it's life to end up benefiting the richest, just one more step before they use as as fertilizer after charging us for the burial.... not even only to the States but worst even, the corporations with which we technically do not even have an actual civil contract... And see what the States do with it...
But, to come back to the requirement of facts. I have participated in many discussions, debates, national, provincial, regional, scholarly, university, high school, yes I'll include kindergarten for the cynics! :) and I have to say with experience and most here will argue most debates are not really about the question itself but the definition of the terms, because with the same basic facts and a same definition of terms.... cultural thinking should not be affected by culture, races, intelligence or any of the other distinctive we have used in the past. In fact, with most same basic facts, most people would instinctively agree on many of the definitions of what's right and wrong. That base from primitive, uneducated and as such uninfluenced children might be the closest evidence we might have from our primate, savage nature's beliefs. The man of today is a result of millions of year of evolution, as well as societal evolution but even more deeply within it's psyche, I believe that it is now the result of it's decade. Just like today we call generations, X, Y, Z, we can see the differences in culture, not amongst different cultural, ethnic historic backgrounds but principally within the same age group which might be, well I will affirm IS, a direct result of today's globalization. and an Impact of the Today mass-produced so-called news.
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