ideas

well, now that i'm into the hectic time of exams again i think my blogging will become neglected. either that or it will flourish due to the practice of avoidance.

I came across the following quote that I thought was great. It's by a guy called Keynes and he is considered one of the founding minds in today's economic thinking. Funnily enough this guys thoughts have been published in EVERY economic textbook printed since his death. That's funny for when you read the quote. So i actually should write this paragraph after the quote but hey.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes

Unlearning might be as valuable as learning. In today's culture where information and ideas are so freely shared and tolerated the greatest asset to a man's critical thinking may well be the ability to throw away ideas rather than his ability to formulate them.

Ideas hold a man hostage to the ramifications of those ideas. Every world view has consequences that permeate throughout his mind. They define his decision making, his reactions to key events, his relationships and even his life ambition. Ideas, once embraced, form the framework for living.

Now comes the tricky part. Ideas are like fungi. And I know a lot about fungi from living alone... i watch it breed in the fridge (just joking!). Anyways, ideology enters our minds through the subtlest of mediums most of which we are not in control of and there they incubate in our minds only to escape in our actions. Hectic.

Man must be the custodian of his own thinking. He must filter. He must dispel wrong ideas and embrace truth. Man must know truth or else he will have no option but to lie.

So i keep coming back to The Word. My benchmark. It's only untruth that needs to be unlearnt cos truth never dies.