EH - 106 : Chaos in Societies

Nobility is a choice, not a birthright. Politeness, dignity and decency are personal lifestyle choices as are baseness, disrespect, and contempt.

Mark Davis goes deep into chaos and order in this pitch for self determination of trustworthyness. It depends on the level of the individual in his own self as to the level of ethics and morality in the rules of how to play the game. Since we all define our own games - we have option to hold ourselves to whatever standards we determine. If we cannot meet those standards, we become disappointed with ourselves and vow to do better next time. But if we consistently do not meet our own standards of behavior, then maybe those really aren't our standards of behavior - they are imaginary perfect us worlds when we are in fact not perfect at all. It is okay to admit that you live to lower standards and then consciously decide to hold yourself to the standards of your own action. This is the first step to desheepleizing.

Trust absolutely nothing that you don't know first hand. Then add the second hand information from the sources that you trust for good information. Mix well and establish an overall idea of what makes sense and what doesn't make sense within your personal sphere of influence. You are the expert on your life - determine the level that you wish to understand and ask how things there got to be. Reason out how they came to be there.

If you do not understand - make something up! Be creative - the rule is that you explain using logic how what came to be there, got there. Do all your assumptions fit? Can you look up information in a book, on the net, or by talking to someone that could verify your theory or shed light on the topic. Modify your reasoning to make your explaination viable - no a giant bug could not have taken a bite out of the earth, decided he didn't like it and spit it out as the moon. We can say this didn't happen this way because the bugs we have do not manufacture moon cheese. Except once in a bleu moon.

Oh wait, this is what four year olds do - perhaps they haven't learned to be bound by society and understand inherently the concept of freedom. Do. Think. Do better. Most readers here have already gotten this concept - start actively desheeplizing sheeple your know by making them think using reason, even if you have to regress them back to age four! (Four was a great age to be - when your vocabulary caught up with your thoughts.)