"An innocent man died because of me, Scully."
"Atleast you went by the book."
"I guess that says alot about the book doesn't it?"-Fox Mulder and Dana Scully
My father taught me a lesson when I was very young, it's a lesson that I'll always remember and a code that I still live by: "Believe half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
Although I'm usually at odds with my father for some reason or another, the philosophy that he taught me stands to be true, even at this age. Especially at this age. What I'm trying to say is that I'm a very, rather extremley independedent person who thinks for himself and sees things through his own eyes without being influenced by accepted beliefs of society.
Unfortunatley, this trait of mine is something that some people like my friend Jason seem to view as "closed-minded" because I'm generally not one to take too much advice or simply accept a lot of societal-accepted beliefs and notions.
Personally, I don't feel or see how I'm being closed-minded by simply being myself but I'm a HUGE believer in everyone being entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, no matter how influenced or warped they may be to me, and that's the point of this entire blog post, as you can tell from the title: "P.O.V," which stands for "Point of View" for those who don't know.
For one example, I don't believe in schooling as we have it set up here in this country, especially. George Carlin, Mr. Haff (A former teacher of mine ironically) as well as the Greek Philosopher, Socrotes, all felt the same way as I do on this one particular subject and all for good reasons too, the way I see it. The idea I just stated above and the reasons I'm about to state, all played a big part in my descision to leave school and go my own independent way about two years ago.
1. By being so called "taught" by people who all think alike, teach the same things and follow the same guidelines and rules, you yourself are being conformed into thinking exactly like everyone else and the end result is the stripping away of independent and original thought as well as personal creativity by blindly accepting what's being fed to you and forced into your head.
2. By learning and accepting the things that society deems as "true" and "okay," and by re-teaching the same thing to others only stregnthens the dysfunctional cycle which was taught to yourself as a child.
3. By allowing yourself to be herded like sheep by the teachers and their all-too-similar teachings, the mindset that they instilled into you will grow to control and manipulate your entire thought process while simultaneously conforming your point of view into what they want it to be or whatever they feel is the "right" way for things to be.
Now, the three things that I stated above are just my own, personal beliefs through my own point of view and once again, I don't expect everyone to agree or accept my beliefs and to be honest, I'd very much respect them for opposing me on my arguments because that would in a way, demonstrate some sort of independent thought.
And so, with all of that said, I can only conclude with saying that I don't see or understand how I'm the one being "closed-minded" as Jason put it a few weeks ago when in fact I'm usually, damn near always the person in the room who's always challenging common, upheld and accepted things such as school, religion and law. I guess, the thing that really bothers me is when someone patronizes me like that without even listening to my argument or atleast taking into consideration my valid point of view on a subject because they think that they know everything and/or because they've spent a little bit more time on this planet than I have.
The way I see it, either I'm out of my mind or I'm just ahead of the curb. I'd like to think the latter....
"Atleast you went by the book."
"I guess that says alot about the book doesn't it?"-Fox Mulder and Dana Scully
My father taught me a lesson when I was very young, it's a lesson that I'll always remember and a code that I still live by: "Believe half of what you see and nothing that you hear."
Although I'm usually at odds with my father for some reason or another, the philosophy that he taught me stands to be true, even at this age. Especially at this age. What I'm trying to say is that I'm a very, rather extremley independedent person who thinks for himself and sees things through his own eyes without being influenced by accepted beliefs of society.
Unfortunatley, this trait of mine is something that some people like my friend Jason seem to view as "closed-minded" because I'm generally not one to take too much advice or simply accept a lot of societal-accepted beliefs and notions.
Personally, I don't feel or see how I'm being closed-minded by simply being myself but I'm a HUGE believer in everyone being entitled to their own opinions and beliefs, no matter how influenced or warped they may be to me, and that's the point of this entire blog post, as you can tell from the title: "P.O.V," which stands for "Point of View" for those who don't know.
For one example, I don't believe in schooling as we have it set up here in this country, especially. George Carlin, Mr. Haff (A former teacher of mine ironically) as well as the Greek Philosopher, Socrotes, all felt the same way as I do on this one particular subject and all for good reasons too, the way I see it. The idea I just stated above and the reasons I'm about to state, all played a big part in my descision to leave school and go my own independent way about two years ago.
1. By being so called "taught" by people who all think alike, teach the same things and follow the same guidelines and rules, you yourself are being conformed into thinking exactly like everyone else and the end result is the stripping away of independent and original thought as well as personal creativity by blindly accepting what's being fed to you and forced into your head.
2. By learning and accepting the things that society deems as "true" and "okay," and by re-teaching the same thing to others only stregnthens the dysfunctional cycle which was taught to yourself as a child.
3. By allowing yourself to be herded like sheep by the teachers and their all-too-similar teachings, the mindset that they instilled into you will grow to control and manipulate your entire thought process while simultaneously conforming your point of view into what they want it to be or whatever they feel is the "right" way for things to be.
Now, the three things that I stated above are just my own, personal beliefs through my own point of view and once again, I don't expect everyone to agree or accept my beliefs and to be honest, I'd very much respect them for opposing me on my arguments because that would in a way, demonstrate some sort of independent thought.
And so, with all of that said, I can only conclude with saying that I don't see or understand how I'm the one being "closed-minded" as Jason put it a few weeks ago when in fact I'm usually, damn near always the person in the room who's always challenging common, upheld and accepted things such as school, religion and law. I guess, the thing that really bothers me is when someone patronizes me like that without even listening to my argument or atleast taking into consideration my valid point of view on a subject because they think that they know everything and/or because they've spent a little bit more time on this planet than I have.
The way I see it, either I'm out of my mind or I'm just ahead of the curb. I'd like to think the latter....
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