Did our society lose track of the concept of truth and the basics involved in it. I think so. We’ve become so confrontational when we don’t agree with something or someone we lose track of the idea that it may not be the truth. We would rather go down swinging than listen to facts that may eventually prove us wrong. It works both ways. Sometimes the confrontation is when we have the facts and others wont listen to reason. We’re so eager for the other to believe us we’re blinded by the fact that they may believe the opposite. It’s they’re choice. We don’t, can’t,  and shouldn’t tell people what to think. That’s been tried for thousands of years. Ask the North Koreans how that’s working out for they’re economy.

We can believe so blindly in something that when we are confronted with facts or an alternative theory we disregard it instantly and completely. Blindly.

It’s not new at all.

Think of the poor guy who offered up the theory that the world was not flat, cars would never replace horses. I could go on and on. They were intensely scrutinized and ridiculed for what they believed in but are now praised for what they stood up for.

Can you imagine what Einstein and even Aristotle were viewed as when they theorized some of the greatest answers we now see as reality. Friggen crack pots! They were giving truthful answers to things individuals had blindly thought and believed were the truth for they’re entire lives, even history. Really, Einstein theorized gravity from an acorn falling out of a tree and a distortion of space? You know they thought he was nuts! Pun intended.

Sometimes I see us as basically stupid beings determined to fail again, and again, and again. History says it’s the truth. Even today it happens in our society and world.

George Santayana said it, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Churchill too, “We must always look forward, but we have to understand our history in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I have seen too many instances where people continue to pursue wrong courses of action because they do not take the time to think critically about what has happened in the past.”

I’m thankful that I find myself in the world with an engineering/science style of thought. Things are more zeros and ones for me. Black and white. They work or they don’t. I think my life is so much easier if I face truth and live truth. I try not to pollute things to much, which is difficult for me, and see things in a realistic way. Black and white. I may be wrong sometimes, I am and I accept that, but things seem to just work out better if I simplify them.

Every time I’ve stuck my nose in where it doesn’t belong, it just doesn’t seem to work out well for me. (a good friend told me that)

I tend to follow facts, evidence and truth. Makes me an outcast! A sane outcast.