Well I miss my freedom. And am GOING to get it back.
This statement makes me think of the Pink Floyd song, "Another Brick in the Wall." I never really got that song before, because I found my (Waldorf) education to be quite free. I never had the feeling that I was being forced to accept some kind of idea or law (even in math and physics) because we always learned from a broader spectrum than is normally "accepted" in school and in our society.
For example: we learned about Newton's and Goethe's theory of light... and the possibility of truth in both, or none...
Now I'm not even prompted to think about these things. What are chemicals? How to do they really interact. It doesn't matter what I think about them, or what my neighbor thinks about them. The only important thing is to memorize the "accepted fact" (which in fact, is actually just a theory) and regurgitate it for an exam. I hate that. So much. I don't want to go to college to be force-fed some facts about electrons and mitochondria just because someone TELLS me that they're true.
What are we anyway? Are we students who come with independent brains and ideas about life, or are we sheep that simple follow a heard of leaders that could essentially be leading us nowhere?
"Baaaaa Baaaaa.. Free thought is Baaaaad.. I'm a poor sheep, following my communist leaders beeeeeecause I have no freedom. "
It's scary to second-guess my decision to study in this field. Now I totally get the Pink Floyd song, and realize that this same sick practice of "schooling" has been going on for ages. I think it's just about time that it's put to an end. I just have this deep-gut urge to just step up and overthrow the whole stupid system of education.
I am a huge proponent on the idea of psychosomatic/ Body-follow-mind relations. Maybe if we (meaning whoever in the world conforms to this idea of reductionism to explain life) would stop spending our whole lives trying to explain things that we can't actually explain, we wouldn't be so sick.
If we didn't stress ourselves out about how atoms are actually held together and how rays of light travel, and how chromosomes come to have genetic defects such as eye color, maybe we would be happier. If we spent less time worrying about how life works and actually just LIVE a little bit... we probably would understand that humans aren't meant to grasp all these ridiculous theories. Let's face it, we NEVER will REALY figure out the size of the universe or the exact number of planets and elements and electrons and acids and bases and WHO gives a shit... honestly.. it's such a waste of time. Ok, cool.. maybe atoms exist, but they SO not pertinent to my everyday life, so save me the hassle. Please. Ignorance is bliss...
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| The nights are lit up by the science buildings of my university... people figuring things out instead of coming home to cook dinner, play with their kids, HAVE kids... Completely against the circadian rhythms of nature.. sick |
Time is precious.. why don't we spend it making friends, building families, singing, dancing, growing food. We should take care of the world and our lives and really live... not waste our resources and our days analyzing things that don't matter to us anyway.
When a man is old and at the verge of death, I don't think he will look back and say, "I understand exactly what is happening on an atomic scale when blah blah blah blah.." More likely will he think about the amazing moments he's shared with his best friend, his wife, the first time he held his daughter, the walks around the lake with his grandkids, all the jokes and good memories of life...
So why invest my life into explaining life, when I really just want to live?
And what's with white lab coats anyway? Why do they have to be so bland and boring? It's totally a mind-control thing. We're all the same stupid sheep, wearing the exact same things, doing the same experiments, doing just as the master told.
I wonder what would happen if I tie-dyed my lab coat... hah... I'll show YOU, freedom-sucking system!
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