Growing Up
It seems to me that there is a time in our lives, from our mid-teens to our mid-twenties, when we develop logic skills and start to apply them to our lives. All the things that we have taken for granted, all the things that we have held in faith, all authority and contempt, we question everything and filter it through the sieve of logic. It's a beautiful thing.
And then something happens in our late twenties. It is then that most people close up again, decide what they are going to believe, and start to filter facts through the sieve of their ideology.
It's almost as if, all the logic that most folks are ever going to use, they're going to use between the ages of 15 and 25.
And it's telling that the institutions that deal entirely in dogma, as opposed to logic, make their strongest push to hang onto teens during these "dangerous" years.
I wish there were some drug that would cause older people to re-open their minds and presumptions to logic. Something that would allow them to re-capture the moment of clarity.
And then something happens in our late twenties. It is then that most people close up again, decide what they are going to believe, and start to filter facts through the sieve of their ideology.
It's almost as if, all the logic that most folks are ever going to use, they're going to use between the ages of 15 and 25.
And it's telling that the institutions that deal entirely in dogma, as opposed to logic, make their strongest push to hang onto teens during these "dangerous" years.
I wish there were some drug that would cause older people to re-open their minds and presumptions to logic. Something that would allow them to re-capture the moment of clarity.