Don't Think - Keep Shopping

The authorities are getting nervous. They are outright telling us that we absolutely should NOT be doing our own research, but trust them instead. Critical thinking is out for the little people.

The problem with that is that post-COVID many can see that so many experts and authorities are full of doo doo. Lots and lots of doo doo.

Screaming at the curious to stay away from the internet because it is full of disinformation is like standing in front of a library and screaming,

"Don't go in there! Not everything in there is true. Stay out of there and we will tell you what to think."

Hold on - they are actually saying that about libraries. 

Like the internet, the official line goes, libraries are filled with "disinformation" and "misinformation". Best to stay away, turn your brain off, and do and think what you are told.

I like Alberto Rios' poetic response to the establishment's edict to stay out of the library.

Don't Go Into The Library

The library is dangerous—

Don’t go in. If you do

You know what will happen.

It’s like a pet store or a bakery—

Every single time you’ll come out of there

Holding something in your arms.

Those novels with their big eyes.

And those no-nonsense, all muscle

Greyhounds and Dobermans,

All non-fiction and business,

Cuddly when they’re young,

But then the first page is turned.

The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge,

The aroma of coffee being made

In all those books, something for everyone,

The deli offerings of civilization itself.

The library is the book of books,

Its concrete and wood and glass covers

Keeping within them the very big,

Very long story of everything.

The library is dangerous, full

Of answers. If you go inside,

You may not come out

The same person who went in.

And there it is - what the authorities are afraid of. 

If we do our own research, if we think for ourselves, we won't come out the same person that went in. We will be better informed independent thinkers that know who we are, and what we want.

And we don't want the crap they are selling us. From the electrification of vehicles to war, it is all an elaborate fantasy world that more people are waking up to.

What the diligent researcher will discover, is that the system is rigged against us. It always has been, and it always will be if we don't mobilize against it. This is all well documented.

It isn't a flaw in the system. It was purposely designed that way, and it is functioning just as they want it to. Or at least it has been until recently. 

Now it is falling apart, and critical thinking has never been more important to our survival. We need more, not less.

Don't shop. 

Keep thinking.

Additional reading: Do Your Own Research? A Reference Librarian's Recommendations