From The Maxims of Good Discourse by Vizier Ptahhotep VIth Dynasty - late Old Kingdom - ca.2200 BCE
From The Maxims of Good Discourse by Vizier Ptahhotep VIth Dynasty - late Old Kingdom - ca.2200 BCE
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Originally posted on 20 October on Paulo Coelho Blog“What do you think of the human race?” asks a friend who has just graduated in sociology.“I think it’s strange – so alike and yet so different! We are capable of working together, of building the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the cathedrals of Europe and the temples of Peru. We can compose unforgettable music, work in hospitals, create new computer programs.“But at some moment all this loses its meaning, and we feel alone, as if we were part of another world, different from the one we have helped to build.”“At times, when others need our help, we grow desperate because this prevents us from enjoying life. At other times, when nobody needs us, we feel useless.“But that’s the way we are. We are complex human beings. Why despair?”“We are what we think. All that we are comes from our thoughts. Through thought we construct and destroy the world. Thought follows us like a cart follows the pair of oxen. We are what we think. Your imagination can cause you more harm than your worst enemy. But once you control your thoughts, no one can help you as much as they can – not even your father or mother.”
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One of the mottoes I advocate those in this age of instant life without "instant wisdom" is: Say Not To Conditioning through modern education and efficiency-based bureaucratic system that strives for national intellectual blindness!"
I am a nay-sayer to whatever is nonsensically collective and statistically, a majority without common elements of solidarity, among other things. I could be an Ethiopian - by birth or politico-legal citizenship at least. But that doesn't mean I am to be "evaporated" as everybody else out there. Some people may have been trained to forget and forget awful manipulations of their intellectual existence. But I am no such a creature of sorts. As I said before, I am an adamant nay-sayer. I am no a man of apology of all sorts. Some may even try to forget an "unpleasant" memory they have had in their desperation to escape limbo, which I cannot. My juvenescent contemporaries may have been conditioned to believe in borrowed concepts. I on the other hand have taken years of initiatives to get myself rid off moral debts to be paid to an invisible army of creditors.
In this game of ill-bred, Frankensteinian metamorphoses of individuals into an exulantic condition, I chose neither to lead nor to follow the flock. I would rather prefer a "spontaneous etiquette" towards the vast immensity of realities of the universe I now dwell in.
I didn't go to school for school's sake, just to be schoolish. Despite the choice made by my family to make me attend schools in the many years I have been to these places what I have learned above all is the art of evading the eternal recurrence of monotonous rites of passage. I have mastered, I dare say, the art of refusing the Realm of Disgust, the realm of modern education based mass control and brainwashing leading the graduates of those institutions of manipulation in to nodus tollens, a late " the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to them anymore."
Hence, I would like to emphasize over and over again, the fact that modern education though accepted as an emancipatory carnival with an anthology of Western-Intellectualism based comforting myths is as subtly harmful as the evils mankind has experienced before. That is to say the consequences of producing a controlled and conditioned by academic ventriloquists of our borrowed scholasticism are nothing less than the consequences of colonialism.
Last but not, even though this system has created a system of similarities without reasoning I don't put myself in that position of believing in my identical similarity to the rest. I am, once again, a nay-sayer to such a sado-masochistic culture of concluding the equality and fraternity of the human race in the name of progress, modernity, civilization and the like.
