people don't think

Its true people don’t think. We don’t create thoughts; thoughts create us. As we are all original, there are original thoughts, but people don’t think about them.

We obsess over the deeply unoriginal, the “all that has been done before.” Since the dawn of civilisation – since before Alexander the Great thought it would be a good idea to stretch his legs, humans have warred with one another. Yet, every night at ten, we report this as News.

Peace would be News. The American Government disarming and deciding not to interfere in other countries interests would be news.  But, yet another kid blown up because he/she was born in the wrong place, at the wrong time is as old as the hills.

We call this tragedy? Yes, but the greatest tragedy of these tragedies is there everlasting repetition throughout history.  History always repeats because we can’t stop bloody talking about it, instead of learning from it.

We have become deeply unoriginal as human beings, and there are no excuses for it anymore. We come from the species that built the pyramids.  How many thousands of years do you think your local Tesco car park is going to last?

We come from the same gene pool as Pythagoras, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Milton, Socrates…Einstein. We have no excuses to be as dense as we are in modern times.  We live in an age of information that has surpassed any other, but it seems the more information there is on offer, the less people want to learn.

Are we all a bit stupid these days because so many great minds before us have worked it all out? Are we stupid because we are lazy, or are we stupid because we don’t challenge authority at all in this day and age. We don’t even challenge what authority is.  The recent Wall Street uprisings that spreads across the world were a push in the right direction, but lets face it, the reason there are banks is because we all want money.

If we didn’t care a less about the pound, the dollar, the yen or Euro, banks would end trade tomorrow. But, money is not the “root of all evil”. We are.  We are also the “root of all good”, brilliant and outright incomprehensible.

But what do we have an abundance of?  Fear.

And what is Fear? Can you describe it? Do you know what it is? Does it actually exist outside of our own minds? Isn’t it rather stupid to be afraid of something that doesn’t exist?

Wherever there is fear there is a need for more money, which really means more control and more security.  But if you think about it, our very desire for more security is what is making us insecure in the first place. If you feel secure, you are secure – and vice versa. Having money does not change this one bit.  Rich people are deeply insecure, or there would not be billionaire plastic surgeons in the world.

Life does have a purpose. That purpose is to grow in experience, wisdom, love and tolerance.  However, for most people life seems to be about buying things.  The more you buy; the less free you are, as everything you possess sooner or later will end up possessing you.

And if you go too far down this road, your growth will only be measured in how the inches expand on your flat screen TV width and your wisdom will boxed in and shelved, just above your square eyes.  You will want a flat, a house then a home for you and your family. But you will never live there, because that is not living, that is planning. Life has no agenda; the infinite is spontaneous.

Will you happily call your boss sir or madam, and sell out your respect for a salary, just so you can buy more things?  If the answer to that is yes, you will grow old until one day, aged 80 plus, looking back think: shit, I really didn’t think about that al all, did I?