See, the world we live in is, as we can look at it, made of 2 parts. You and the rest. It's the same with everyone single one in the rest. Now, what each of us do is going to affect the rest and eventually what the rest does is affecting you (and normally most would add a "for good or bad" here). But this fact, as obvious as it may seem, has far reaching effects. This effect of everyone affecting everyone shows some unique properties. How the rest affects you is not the sum total of each of the rest affecting you. the rest influences the rest to act in a certain way. That is everyone in the rest isnt acting independently. They act in ways that they feel will make them acceptable to the rest. Now, there is nothing wrong with that. But, what is wrong is, what is acceptable to the rest is not necessarily what is acceptable to each in the rest. This is kind of a vicious circle. Everyone thinks everyone else things only this is acceptable. Why was widow remarriage not accepted? Why did people fight wars in the name of such things? This might seem like old stuff that no longer exists. But the same phenomenon exists only the acceptable things change. The then society was convinced that there was something wrong in widow remarriage and something righteous and brave in sati. This was some thing the society as a whole forced everyone to believe, though surely every daughter's father was broken when his son-in-law died. In the present situation, why is a gay relationship wrong? You know why, 'coz the society want us to think it is. Now the question comes why does it want us to think that way?. Now that is a question which might have a very complex answer. But the fact still remains, that the society wants us to think some things are wrong. They might argue the continuation of species crap, but the fact is if it was about that tell him to only fuck once in his life. And in the present situation, our species will survive only if there are fewer of us coming per second. There was this article in the Reader's digest about this guy who lost his sense of smell in a school brawl and later after many years got it back after an operation. This guy, one day noticed a smell and surprisedly asked if it was a new perfume only to realize it was a fart. What this points to is 2 things, the fart smells bad to us 'coz we have convinced ourselves it is bad. well, in some ways its good for us, diseases n all. But the fact is we convinced ourselves it is not right to think that a fart smells good. In a way the nazis weren't that bad, they convinced themselves that jews were low. Its just a matter of magnitude. If we run along the same lines we could be convinced of something of a similar magnitude .So, finally the point is who the fuck are they to tell us something is right or wrong? Its important to have perception, but not ones that are based on what some they ,which consists of no particular somebody, want us to think. Sure we have grown beyond evolution and need some moderation, but still who the fuck are they to moderate.
So, be open to things. And keep your judgement. 'coz if you are strong enough the act of expression of your judgement can cause the rest to think without thinking. So in the words of the bard
"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgemen".
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