Is it not ironic that in a free and subjective world, each of us is victim to judgment?
How is it that any one person can make a choice or choose a perspective completely of their own when they are constantly enduring the fear of judgment from behind the spectacles of society?
Yes, these are deep statements, but I feel they are important questions to consider. How is true, healthy progress to be made on a global scale when each person’s, or group’s, definition of perfection or a desirable state differs to the point where we all exist on an equal plane with unfulfilled goals, and the people in charge represent not the progress of a state or nation, but the facade which wishes to be seen or believed?
I have recently studied Hard Times by Charles Dickens, and Dickens raises an extremely valid point through this story; we are each, as individuals, not prepared by education to tackle the real world; we are instead molded into beings capable of operating the mechanics of the constructed world. This is not to say that education is a bad thing; to the contrary, I think it is a great thing which shouldn’t be taken for granted. It cannot be denied however, that education authorities often selectively exclude certain theories from their programs, such as religion.
We all deserve the chance to discover for ourselves what is right and wrong or, in the case of many grey areas, at least form our own opinion. Who has the right to say what is and what isn’t, what is real and what is not, when the only sure thing is that nothing can be proven or disproven?
