Question Everything

At some point in history society took it upon themselves to stop questioning what they see and hear. A group of people agreed on a topic and started shouting it from the rooftops. Then people just followed along and agreed with those ideas and concepts. It sounded good to them; it seems moral. 

This is where the concept of people being sheep comes from in life. Sheep are smart animals, but at the end of the day, they will always follow the crowd and go along with the others. File right into line for feed or slaughter. 

Many times, people will fall in line just to get along and not rock the boat. It’s understandable and most get along just fine in life. They get up, go to work, pay bills, and live a happy life. Others are not that lucky. They lose themselves in drugs, alcohol, and dark depths of society.

Politics has been around since the dawn of time. There have been rulers, chiefs, kings, then senators, committee members, and presidents. There is a hierarchy in nature. Most animal species adhere to it in one form or another. Humans are no different except in one aspect - our ability of conscious reasoning. 

That concept is what sets us a part from other species on the evolutionary chain. The problem is, not everyone uses that ability. We take what someone in authority tells us and goes with it all. We as humans have the ability to get answers on our own. We have the ability and right to question everything. 

Asking questions is a great way to understand what is going on at any particular time. It is also a great way to get to the heart of a person and what they believe. At no time in our history should we ever take what the government gives us as the gospel. That includes this administration, the previous administration, all those before it and yet to come. 

When any person in government tells you that you don’t need to know or see something, that is a pretty good indicator that you need to question even more. Why did our government approve $1.9 trillion dollars when almost a trillion from the previous bill hasn’t been earmarked or spent? Why did we even need the previous bills? Why does our government keep growing? Why are so many people complacent with what the government says, but not their own doctors or scientists around the world? 

You can replace any of those questions with an array of questions about any topic. Using our ability of conscious reasoning helps in finding the right questions. It requires you to take a step back and take yourself out of the equation. Start looking at a bigger picture.

Thankfully we have the internet to help out. Those with inquiring minds can earn a degree from Google University to be a medical doctor who specializes in epidemiology, or can be a lawyer, political science major, and teacher. 

Many people questioned and urged against lockdowns from the beginning. A year later billions have been lost in businesses destroyed from riots, thousands of lives lost from overdoses, abuse, and suicide. There are people scared to walk around outside in the fresh air without a mask on because someone told them it’s not safe. 

When you demagogue people for asking questions, you get what our country had been through this last year. You get millions of people out of work still while looking for their next handout from the government. You get the lowest of life, not from a virus, from being told to stay home, you can’t see your friends. 

No one should ever be stopped from asking questions. No matter who they are or what side of the political spectrum. We have a problem with the internet saying we can’t ask certain questions. 

The problem in life is not that there is a con man selling snake oil. The problem is there are people who will give up on that one con man and go find another with lizard oil to sell - same stuff just a different package. All because they never questioned anything. 

The motive behind most politicians is power and money. Period. History tells us that when a majority of the people tell you, you are doing a good job, you believe them and feel you are right. When very few question your choices, it justifies your future actions. 

Ask yourself this, if you were in Nazi Germany in 1940, and you were Adolf Hitler with millions of people praising you and telling you how great you are, who wouldn’t get drunk on that power and want more? Can you blame Hitler for taking a moral stance, one that was approved by millions of his followers? That was their justification for killing millions of people. 

We don’t have enough people asking questions. We don’t have enough people who can read a column or news article and comprehend what is being inferred. We don’t have enough people questioning those in power to hold them accountable for their actions. This is not a left or right debate. This is a moral and humanitarian debate. 

When you start to ask questions, you will eventually get to the bottom of the matter at hand. We as a society should be free to ask those questions without retribution. 

Voltaire wrote, “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”