Opinions Page #4
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all the same underneath?
At first, a baby is a
greedy, selfish creature.
All it knows about are its own needs.
If monsieur Pasteur, mister Lister,
doctor Fleming and miss Nightingale
had been miss Dimm, most of us
would have curled up our toes
and died of infection long before reaching
the ripe old age of twenty seven.
This is where education comes in.
But there are two types.
One is purely educational,
its accumulated knowledge,
artistic, historic, and scientific.
And is very very veryvery
veryveryvery good.
The other is indoctrination,
which poses as education,
but is excrementally treacherous,
deceitful, and prone to mythomania.
so low as to indoctrinate?
All religious leaders and politicians.
It's what their job's all about.
They say, here's a code
of behaviour for you,
now you won't have to do
any of that difficult thinking.
Put these blinkers on and follow us.
Believe in god, and all
that we say he says,
or believe in the party,
and all that we say you say.
Oh say can you see, rule Brittania,
to keep the red flag flying here...
I have seen the light!
Ours is the true way!
Yes, millions of people can be wrong.
They betray their ignorance and prejudice
by their intolerance of other moralities,
and their insistance that
theirs is the only way.
I remember an ad, for volkswagen cars,
which said that twenty five
million people could not be wrong.
Remember world war two?
Need I say more?
So think, and don't blindly follow.
Choose the best bits of all philosophies
you can find and build your own.
You don't have to be a christian,
a muslim, a buddhist,
a communist, a logical positivist
or a vegan to use your brain.
In fact, to be committed to such a club
is to sentence millions of brain
cells to shameful inactivity.
Religion, nationalism, and political
fervour are enemies of rational thought.
At best, dearest viewer,
we should stroll a careful course,
retaining our individualism
and freedom and thought,
while conforming only to
social behaviour patterns
which benefit and enlighten,
rather than harm others.
Of course, the neighbours can be right.
Ultimately, it is the corporate
consciousness of humanity
against which our personal
moralities are compared.
Thankfully, this corporate
consciousness is not fixed.
It is growing and developing as
it absorbs and accepts new ideas,
ideas pioneered by individuals
who it may once have persecuted,
and who eventually become the
heroes of man's search for truth.
Well, that's the end of a very long
but well intentioned
and important bit of chat.
Now, obviously, some of you may
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