Thursday, May 3, 2012

Department of Incorrections


We live in the most unique of times. Unprecedented? Perhaps not. But we live in a time period in which ideas flow from person to person at the speed of light. Thoughts are energy that travel through the universe and can never be stopped and can never be undone. What makes the 21st century a unique period in history is the paradox that I call the war on thought. Thoughts lead to ideas which soon spawn actions. The powers that be are still hellbent on controlling thoughts but what they fail to learn, or even attempt to understand, is that you cannot stop an idea. The politicians, corporations, police, all fail to understand that simple philosophy. In their pathetic and futile attempt to maintain order, it's still social policy to squander ideas by incarcerating the individual. Temporary cessation of action doesn't unwrite the manifesto. This is why you cannot and will not win a war on hacktivism or a war on drugs. The ideas have already been birthed. They cannot be stopped. They cannot be squashed. You would assume the most educated of people would be able to comprehend this, but alas, the concept seems to elude them. 

Now I go for a walk.