We are sent into this world to develop our own personality –
to use such gifts as we have been given and to set an example to others by our courage, fortitude, sympathy, generosity and self-reliance...
Any state which controls the lives of the people and dictates where they shall live,
what work they shall do,
what they shall see, say, hear, read and think, thwarts the free development of personality, and is therefore EVIL...
It will be immensely difficult to break the stranglehold of the machine, but it can be done, little by little; the first step being the formation of secret groups of friends for free discussion...
"To think" is to follow a top down narrative given by someone else.
Everything must be reduced to topical subjects, bullet points, top 10 lists, listicles
"Thoughts?" is considered a question that can be asked.
Not how what when where why, just "thoughts".
Give me "thoughts".
Maybe its because my audience has gradually begin to skew younger, or because I have gotten older, but I continuously receive questions now in which the person asking, usually a young man, he does not KNOW how to ask a question.