I was going to post this in Odin's thread, but it got deleted. All that hard work for naught?
For something that changed my thinking, or rather something my mind wrapped itself around, I barely remember it at all. It was probably an article someone wrote, and I only have faint recall of the structure of the idea. I'll try to summarize it:
What are beliefs commonly held today, that will turn out to be just as wrong and ill-founded, as what was commonly believed just a few decades ago, or even a few centuries ago. An immediate example of this at the time was the debate over gay marriage in my country, and how it parallelled the debate over interracial marriage in the states only a few decades ago. Just as preposterous to me the notion that the state should prevent two people of different races from marrying, so it will be for my children to imagine how two men or women should not be allowed to marry if they are so inclined.
Actually, that wasn't quite right. I'm only 21 myself, younger when I came across that idea, and of the generation that does indeed find it preposterous that two people who love each other should not be allowed to marry because they both have man junk. You see, a corrolary of the idea was, what are the widely held ideas that you, yourself, may believe right now that are wrong, just as wrong as say the rampant anti-semitism in the 30's was, or the beliefs of the colonial powers in the subhumanry of the natives in their colonies. As well, considering those thoughts you believe today, what side of history would you have stood on? What parallels are there in your thoughts that mimic the marriage issue I outlined?
Well, in considering all that over time, I came across two ideas that I reject as the ill-founded precepts that they are, mass believed. They are others, but I'll just mention the two. The first is the renewed militirism of our times. The second is the role the automobile has in our society, in that is shouldnt have one at all. What do you believe in thats wrong? Or what do you see that others don't and should?
For something that changed my thinking, or rather something my mind wrapped itself around, I barely remember it at all. It was probably an article someone wrote, and I only have faint recall of the structure of the idea. I'll try to summarize it:
What are beliefs commonly held today, that will turn out to be just as wrong and ill-founded, as what was commonly believed just a few decades ago, or even a few centuries ago. An immediate example of this at the time was the debate over gay marriage in my country, and how it parallelled the debate over interracial marriage in the states only a few decades ago. Just as preposterous to me the notion that the state should prevent two people of different races from marrying, so it will be for my children to imagine how two men or women should not be allowed to marry if they are so inclined.
Actually, that wasn't quite right. I'm only 21 myself, younger when I came across that idea, and of the generation that does indeed find it preposterous that two people who love each other should not be allowed to marry because they both have man junk. You see, a corrolary of the idea was, what are the widely held ideas that you, yourself, may believe right now that are wrong, just as wrong as say the rampant anti-semitism in the 30's was, or the beliefs of the colonial powers in the subhumanry of the natives in their colonies. As well, considering those thoughts you believe today, what side of history would you have stood on? What parallels are there in your thoughts that mimic the marriage issue I outlined?
Well, in considering all that over time, I came across two ideas that I reject as the ill-founded precepts that they are, mass believed. They are others, but I'll just mention the two. The first is the renewed militirism of our times. The second is the role the automobile has in our society, in that is shouldnt have one at all. What do you believe in thats wrong? Or what do you see that others don't and should?
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