The world is shaped by ideas. Every day, six billion people make decisions that affect the world in very small, and extremely large ways. These decisions are based on ideas. History, courage, peace, war, literature, and revolution are just some of those ideas.
Today more than ever, we need to view our world. We need to see it for what it is. We need to know the ideas that shape it. The question is, how can we observe these ideas? Often, when we try to view the world, we box ourselves in with our own prejudice. We cannot just look through our own eyes at the world or we will become so narrow that viewing the world for what it is becomes nearly impossible.
Today more than ever, we need to view our world. We need to see it for what it is. We need to know the ideas that shape it. The question is, how can we observe these ideas? Often, when we try to view the world, we box ourselves in with our own prejudice. We cannot just look through our own eyes at the world or we will become so narrow that viewing the world for what it is becomes nearly impossible.
As human beings, we can overcome our prejudice with lenses. We see differently through these lenses. They shape our world different colors and give us fresh ideas.
We can see the world through billions of different lenses; a lens of race and ethnicity, a lens of science, one of truth versus fallacy, a lens of symbolism, religion; even a lens of hate.
Once we put on these lenses, we ask questions such as “How do things appear to be? How should things be? What’s right and wrong with how things are? And, What, if anything, should be done about it?”
Those very questions help us step beyond ourselves and become objective thinkers. We come to realize that through these lenses, we can extract truth and ideas. No longer are we the small-minded man who just lets himself be dragged around by the current of life. Now, we are objective thinkers. We see the world in different ways and have the ability to change it. Now we are seeing in relative truth, through a differently colored lens.
But not all lenses see things equally. What a lens of war would see as truth, a lens of peace would see differently. There is only relative truth with a lens. How do we know what ultimate truths lie hidden in the world?
We combine lenses.
We can see the world through billions of different lenses; a lens of race and ethnicity, a lens of science, one of truth versus fallacy, a lens of symbolism, religion; even a lens of hate.
Once we put on these lenses, we ask questions such as “How do things appear to be? How should things be? What’s right and wrong with how things are? And, What, if anything, should be done about it?”
Those very questions help us step beyond ourselves and become objective thinkers. We come to realize that through these lenses, we can extract truth and ideas. No longer are we the small-minded man who just lets himself be dragged around by the current of life. Now, we are objective thinkers. We see the world in different ways and have the ability to change it. Now we are seeing in relative truth, through a differently colored lens.
But not all lenses see things equally. What a lens of war would see as truth, a lens of peace would see differently. There is only relative truth with a lens. How do we know what ultimate truths lie hidden in the world?
We combine lenses.
Our goal as objective thinkers and visionaries is to take all of these lenses and combine them to extract the ultimate truths. We extract those truths that shine through prejudice and the erosion of time. We extract the kinds of ideas that remain true no matter what kind of lens we view them through.
The world is shaped by ideas. Every day, six billion people make decisions that affect the world in very small, and extremely large ways. These decisions are based on ideas. Are you going to be the small-minded person, or the visionary? Will you rely on your eyes of prejudice or will you put on a lens and become the master of world truth?
The world is shaped by ideas. Every day, six billion people make decisions that affect the world in very small, and extremely large ways. These decisions are based on ideas. Are you going to be the small-minded person, or the visionary? Will you rely on your eyes of prejudice or will you put on a lens and become the master of world truth?
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