Don’t Be So Naive

Because I have been “around” a lot, been a lot of places, met all kinds of people, and see myself as savvy and somewhat “street smart,” I consider myself to be quite worldly. But there are a lot of people who have the direct opposite opinion of me and think I am naive, and don’t mind telling they think so.

I suppose part of the dichotomy is that I take most things at face value, until proved otherwise, while so many others are constantly looking for the deep, dark secrets that lie beneath the surface waiting to trip us all up. Yes, I am well aware there are monsters under the bed waiting to get us, but I feel most of them are more afraid of us than we are of them.

It boils down to the need a lot of people have to find the secret answers to things they either do not fully understand, or refuse to accept. Conspiracy theories lie everywhere, like land mines, waiting to catch us unaware and blow up in our face.

Like most people, I feel we will never really know the whole truth behind President Kennedy’s assassination. So there are some things that will always remain a mystery. But I feel that most conspiracy theories rarely go beyond the theory stage because there is nothing of substance to support them. Do we have a secret government with a secret president that really runs things, while the man we see on TV and his government are just a front, doing what they are told to do, and saying what they are told to say? No, very doubtful. Was the attack on the World Trade Center really planned by “the government,” including the President, as an excuse to get us into war so the millionaires who supply goods to a war effort would get richer and we would finally control a massive flow of oil on foreign soil? No, and that is a major insult to the people who died in the attacks and their survivors.

The list of theories is as long as I am tall, the vast majority of which are just talk, which is basically the expulsion of a lot of hot air.

Many times we are victims of illusion. People, situations, businesses, groups create an illusion of the Truth that is nothing more than smoke and mirrors. They want to take control of your “mind,” but the best thing you can do for yourself is discover the Truth and maintain control of your own mental capacities. You have to remain open-minded, and if there is a revelation of some malignancy, then we can deal with. Everyone…and I mean everyone…has his or her own agenda. Getting at the Truth anymore is a very difficult thing, and takes more time and effort than most people are willing to spend. So rather than form their own opinion based on substantial evidence, they shop around until they find one that suits their notions best, and they mindlessly buy into it.

There is more than one way to do something. Don’t get it in your mind that there is just one way…there’s just one answer. Realize it is your “personal responsibility” to form your own opinions and find your own answers. Congesting your mind with this kind of misinformation is nothing more than a waste of time and effort. You mean to tell me you have nothing better to do with your mind and your time than misuse it in this way?

I guess it boils down to the fact that I am a bit of a skeptic. Plus, I rarely follow what the crowd says is the right way to do something and the right way to think. If that is naive, then so be it.

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