We humans depend on our fellow humans for much, which can be a GREAT thing. Like people can even put people in space, thanks to MILLIONS of humans back here on our planet, or else, not possible. And went dramatic for emphasis, but daily reality is so much that depends on lots of people, working together, and mostly working well.
Naturally that does not just happen.
Get born, and people tell you things.
Which should be helpful to learn how to be your best human. The ideal am sure of--but how well society manages is a subject for endless debate.
Reality I think is, most of it IS rather useful.
Know I learned a lot from my parents which I appreciate, and then lots more from teachers, and VASTLY more from books and now from the web. Really, was it vastly more? Or do I like to think it was for ego reasons? Well, parents taught me for so long through that childhood thing, school teachers for a bit longer as went to college, and now web is for the rest of my life. Ok. So yeah is about right.
And there is a fierce desire to learn when young, thankfully, which does most of the work, of getting us to work, at learning, especially early.
So we do things like learn a language without even remembering all that effort. Which is one of the most massively intensive things most humans will ever do. Thankfully long before most can remember much.
Though people can get perspective later when try to learn another, even though is easier with the foundations in place.
Yet as much as we gratefully learned with joy or relentless effort we barely understand, much else we are told we need to know. Which is so much about school. And there also, usually is correct where can take a LONG time before get that perspective--which is usually adult.
And then there are areas where your fellow humans can get beyond the needed, beyond even the true, and test your ability to check authority. If you can muster the courage. Challenging authority is something completely different and is a harder area. Checking authority is more about verifying that the knowledge IS correct. And how often does anyone do that?
Just because some humans CLAIM to know, does it mean really do? No.
Motivations DO matter of course. And thankfully enough, present without proof that it can take people more motivated to spend energy telling a lie, than the truth. Truth has a solidity which can actually make truth easier.
Lies tend to keep needing support.
The pressure to know is the reality. And there is pressure from people for us to know, and people pressure forces us to learn, something.
But, what if that people pressure is for lots of wrong reasons?
How hard it is to know, especially if what taught has to be challenged? And how do you know to challenge unless things really do not seem to work well with what knowledge you have.
Which am thinking has been a modern problem. The web has shifted so much for so many people as opening new possibilities, pushed people, like myself, to learn new things.
People are aware that even when wrong, can still want you to do something, so lots of people may try to convince you.
Is a very common reality of course that if some humans need you to do something? They probably will tell you some things.
Whether those things are true or not? Well it can depend.
Luckily the younger you are the less likely those things are deliberately not useful, as what's the motivation? Best parents have none. Even not so good parents have little, I'd think. Worst parents are terrifying to consider. But in-between, may lie relentlessly to you to try to get you to clean the house and THEIR childish messes when they are messier than their own kids...um. Where was I?
Oh yeah, so checking authority is really about verifying that information you need, or you're told you need, is actually valid. And good news is society works hard for you. Like in the US, you can trust that a medical doctor needs lots of training, and proof of accomplishing that training, and has to work to maintain a medical license! The government really wants those doctors to work, in many ways.
In lots of areas you will find that people are checked on their knowledge. And thankfully in our times the web helps you to check, both on how to check, and on details which some person may give. Then if get suspicious, on ways to have appropriate authority, check them.
In some areas is good to start skeptical is my opinion: like with romantic relationships.
Question much. It does seem to often be presented too easily the path to finding a stranger, who will become closer than a friend. And how can it be so little taught, a process by which someone you barely know, becomes someone you feel like you cannot live without? Or wouldn't it be nice to find such a person. And how many actually do in life?
We do our best with what we know. And find it very difficult to challenge, usually. Which I know from my own experience and watching others. As people pressure pushes us, when you feel it? Then you know you're at the limits of your knowledge.
Is so much better when you can go with the flow. Even feel like your life is too mundane, as so much seems unexciting, when complex decisions really, look like the only ways to go. With training that has become so much a part of you as the difficult has turned to the natural.
Like with language, and we speak more easily than we remember how we learned. Where again we do not remember actually unless getting a hint from how hard by working later at a second language.
The language then of much of our lives is like a roadmap that means less pressure so much may rarely feel it at all. Or more usually, back with that relationships thing, where no one seems to have a great handle there.
So lots of checks and balances--to go with a phrase--are available. And when feeling people pressure? Especially the older you are? Probably best with checks and balances versus waking up daily in some weird situation where some person has abused your trust, and you're paying the consequences.
We live with consequences no matter what. Makes sense to work at how you get yours.
Knowledge IS power in so many ways. And sure people pressure is reality for getting so much done, which is great, most of the time, for most in societies that are advanced. Your fellow humans need you to know things, and you need your fellow humans to know vast amounts of information thankfully where millions are available? Like in countries like the US?
That is a done deal.
James Harris
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