Is thinking tabooed?

I just hit me, is thinking tabooed? Take a look around yourself, what things around you promote thinking? Perhaps a TV to feed you with information deemed to fit your particular demographic, ‘news’ that captures what we’re supposed to be concerned with. Books that tell us how to live our lives, things to do, experience and what not. Oh, and Internet, let’s not forget Internet, where everyone is successful, beautiful and highly intelligent with only amazing things to say.

All in all, this gives us some sort of inbuilt predesposition towards not asking questions, just follow suite. It’s almost as if society as a whole is built around the assumption that few will think about, or question the established. Those brave souls that do will quickly find themselves outnumbered and in minority. I believe I belong to the minority. Most people around me, at work, in the store, whereever, seem to almost blindly accept what’s happening to them and their surroundings.

There’s no thinking. Oh, someone told me I should eat this, or drink that to get fit. I should do that, or find this to become happy. I myself fall victim to this, but it’s becoming increasingly rare.

What will be required to liberate all these people from this mental prison? How can we promote real, critical and analytical thinking? What will be required?

I believe we just need to liberate our thinking. Allow ourselves to play with the ‘impossible’, allow ourselves to imagine the ‘impossible’, do the impossible. We have to grown ‘down’, find the kid in us, the one that used to ask questions about everything. To ponder and wonder about all that is. That’s what we need to do.

Let’s be kids again… let’s play!