Trying to promote my new book I have noticed just how many outlets there are for people who want to say something, in writing or simply talking. I know there are a lot of people in the world but have you ever considered the ‘millions’ of weblogs that now have been added to the newspapers, magazine, radio shows, tv shows, free newsletters and books that bombard us everyday?
I am sure most of these people are talking about much the same things. Take away simply news, and then take away opinion, I wonder how much is left that is objective thought, and after all is not objective thought where we all should be?
How much time do spend using reason for misguided purposes? Can we really believe that endlessly using reason to argue only for our own ideas is the best use to which we can put our minds? Surely it is when we put time into understanding fully other people’s ideas that we shine?
And the reason that this is important is because everything we think is based upon certain assumptions. It is because we make different assumptions that any of us think differently from each other. And since they are just that, assumptions, to build a house upon them is to build in sand.
If we could read and listen to everything said on this planet for one day we might get close to what a human day ‘is’ on Earth.