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I completely agree with what you stated. I do think the context of being awake is to understand that something is very wrong, not necessarily having the answers. With that being said I think the answer is more simple than most realize. Only a fool would think they have all the answers, and such a person is not worth listening to.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
I hate the term "being awake". How would you know you're awake anyway? What if you have the world all wrong? How would you ever truly know?
A communist would call a Capitalist to be asleep, and vice versa. A die hard communist/capitalist SWEARS up and down that they are right, or more enlightened. And since NO country were ever either, how can you really say? And even if they were, how could you argue that it wasn't because of bad leadership or environmental/societal factors that caused it to fail? (This is just an example, not trying to get in a debate)
I like to stay as opened minded as possible.
Plus, if you go around telling people that they're "asleep" and you're not...that will just make you think you're an elitist jerk.
We ALL have something to learn, all of us are "asleep" to certain topics.edit on 29-2-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RealSpoke
I hate the term "being awake". How would you know you're awake anyway? What if you have the world all wrong? How would you ever truly know?
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by rigel4
Not really.
I mean people have gotten "awakened" to GMO, aspartame and high fructose corn syrup. Enough people complained and now there is a whole market of pure sugar cane and the likes mentioned above products.
People have gotten so awakened that lobbies want to change the name to Corn Sugar.
People were awakened to the horrors of animal experimentation. That started the whole market of non-animal tested cosmetics and other products.
More and more people know what the Federal Reserve is and the jist of how it works.
Things start as an idea then grow, like a viral video.