Reading+Writing=Thinking

Today, I want to talk about how awesome reading and writing is. Thanks to freedom of press and speech, that we have here in the United States, you are allowed to say what you want when you want. This allows people to share ideas. It allows everyone the oppurtinity to further their knowledge. This in turn allows free thinking. Without it, the world we know now could have born a resemblance to the bleak existences we are shown in George Orwell's 1984 and V for Vendetta. The General populace is controlled and oppressed. The media is controlled, those that speak out against the government "disappear".

Having this freedom to read and write whatever you please has it's downsides though. There are some ideas, caused, possibly by people with way too much time on their hands, that are allowed to be born. Even worse yet, people begin to believe. They take up arms in the name of a movement, mislead though they be. They claim that they believe, but are actually allowing themselves to be taken over, they are not thinking free. Let's take for example, the 9/11 Truth Movement. They reject the mainstream account of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They think the US Government had a hand in the attack. Madness. Even worse still is the people who spout out "9/11 was an inside job!"

Right, and Vikings were the first explorers to visit the moon. But that is what's great about writing. We have the opportunity to write and express our ideas, regardless of how far fetched they may sound. And, we have the opportunity to express a contradictory idea; an idea that makes more sense, and that, in most cases, is accepted as the truth.
-Yvan