Where to start?
“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken....Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?
We cannot....Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts....”(Plato, The Republic)
Life…
Who wrote this shit?
With each new day, comes a new sun. Along with that, it seems, a boat load of shocking hard to handle truths.
Truth? or news?
I struggle to distinguish the two anymore.
Journalism used to be an honourable game… Right?
I don’t know what I see nowadays other than a bunch of money hungry yes men.
It no longer seems about truth anymore, but numbers…
…Clicks & Licks
The fact that our truth has become weaponised should concern some people.
As much as these “hard to handle truths” are quite a shock to the system, you have to have discernment. The number of false news articles and social-media blown up stories is just as worrying.
We saw it earlier in the year in the UK. Misinformation spreading following a vicious public attack. Everyday this misinformation is being pumped into our psyche. A parasite to our better judgement, something being targeted against us in order to break down our ability to tell what’s real from what is not.
All the subconscious thought programming. Its there, you just have to see it.
I’m worried for the future in truth…
… not for my future…
… the future of the generations to come.
If I am fortunate to raise children one day, I fear that the world will not be the same as the one I grew up in. A lot of honourable values of old have slowly been replaced with much of the materialistic, greed & desire based ideologies of the modern times.
I was fortunate enough in my upbringing, although it’s taken me a lot of soul searching and contemplation to get to that understanding. I feel that way because I was raised by the older generations.
I watched and learnt from the masters of keeping calm and carrying on. It seems life used to be so much tougher on people. So much so, that everyone had a sort of empathy for one another because they understood life ain’t easy.
The care people had for their neighbour isn’t being taught anymore.
I was surprised reading that quote from Plato, as at its core, it couldn’t be more applicable to the world we live in today.
So much confusion, so many false idols.
Who, if not us, will our children really look up to.
With some of the characters I see roaming now a days, in public and in the media…
…I can only worry.
I would love to hear what people think, people who possibly have kids and understand what its like to navigate the world of parenthood and responsibilities involved.
Thank you.
References: (Plato. (1894). The Republic (B. Jowett. Trans). Oxford University Press)