Funny how I write an almost and somewhat intellectual blog entry & I received more comments than ever. I guess that proves a point - intellectuality attracts. Haha. My own warped perception, but I'm sorry, my brain isn't powerful enough to constantly write such in-depth "articles". I may be an aspiring journalist, but the mind gets too knackered once in a while.
Reading the comments made me realize people actually do have questions settled somewhere in the back of their minds, the only problem is, they don't voice it out. Either by pure laziness or living by the statement "ignorance is bliss". I don't know how they get by. It cheeses me off that people have no opinions of their own, they take a stand on the side everyone is on...in other words, thoughts and opinions merge together and flow as one. That is the way society works, it is the mold in which we all conform to, to become "us" - society.
We are not what creates the boundaries and characteristics of society, society is what creates us and in turn decides what we can or cannot do, what is right and/or wrong. Agreed or disagreed?
I'm trying hard not to turn this into some sort of a political debate, its a direction that I would want to deter from. It's complicated and its not my thing.
How many of us when in school were encouraged to raise our hands to ask questions out of the ordinary? How many of us saw our teachers fumbling for the (politically) correct answers when we did? How many of us actually thought of such questions and truly sought an answer? I for one knew that keeping quiet was somehow the better solution. Solution to what I am not sure, but I just felt that was what was expected. Quite sure i wasn't the only one.
The point to this is - we're not taught to speak up for what we believe in, neither encouraged nor discouraged. But have an opinion that differs so greatly from the majority makes you stick out like a sore thumb, so you'd have to choose to go with the flow, or pay the price. Freedom of speech is but a mere facade that fades away as you approach its reality. There is no such thing as freedom of speech. And in this technology era we live in, privacy hardly exists. We're constantly being watched. But that is another story for another time...
17 September 2005
Un Cafe, s'il vous plait!
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Cup That Cake
3:03 PM
- Ada 7:29 PM
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Well said babe... we are all made to stay within the mould. Any attempt made to step out of it would strip you naked, making you feel cold and bare.
However, we should step out of the mould as only those who do truly go far in life.
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stunded by the ability to think that the asian mind is capacitated not only by our society but in the classrooms was what my god father refered to, when asked about our educational system. we seem to have left out that our society does not allow us to break free from our social stereotype we seem to need so much more than just an act of god to disappate such ideals and socialism.
i figured that we will never ever be able to break free from that sort of stereotype. we can only wish for a better tommorrow and one that truely allows the freedom of speech. we as individuals must ensure that we don't go unheard and must be unafraid. we must never stop questioning reason and reason itself must be asked on different times, of it's "dignity" ever so often. and hopefully one day, we as the asianistic society can finally break free from this socialist stand.
and to the author, may all this change and be different in a good way as each generation pasts.