From the moment you were born, the world started shaping your mind. Your beliefs, fears, and desires—most of them were handed to you, not chosen by you. Society, family, media—all conditioning you before you even had the chance to think for yourself.
But here’s the truth: Not all thoughts are yours. Your mind works like a radio, tuned to the frequency of the world around you. If you don’t actively choose your thoughts, your environment will choose for you. And what you think, you become.
Most people have NO idea that the vast majority of their current thoughts and beliefs were designed by others and put out there into cult-ure to become your present understanding about life and your place in it — this is known as “programming”.
Just as you would put code into a computer to make it perform as you want it to, the culture-makers are putting out code to make YOU perform the way the controllers want you to perform. If you take on the beliefs of cult-ture, then you are programmed, which means none of your beliefs and few of your thoughts and understandings are your own. Scary thought isn’t it?
Now is the time to examine all your current beliefs about EVERYTHING, and if our cult-ure makers are pushing a meme over and over, you can be sure you are being subjected to programming…..NOW is the time to break with that programming and think for yourself. Please note that all knee-jerk responses are likely to be programming….examine why you are emotionally responding the way you are and ask yourself ‘who’ would gain the most from your emotional response in this moment. You? Or the cult-ure makers?”
~ Mallorie Ryan
Free Yourself
We should free ourselves from the narrowness of being related only to those familiar to us, either by the fact that they are blood relations or, in a larger sense, that we eat the same food, speak the same language, and have the same “ common sense.” Knowing men in the sense of compassionate and empathetic knowledge requires that we get rid of the narrowing ties of a given society, race or culture and penetrate to the depth of that human reality in which we are all nothing but human. True compassion and knowledge of man has been largely underrated as a revolutionary factor in the development of man, just as art has been. It is a noteworthy phenomenon that in the development of capitalism and its ethics, compassion (or mercy) ceases to be a virtue.
― Erich Fromm
“In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite and so it will remain in the future.”
~ Schopenhauer
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds.”
-Bob Marley
“Dare to think for yourself.”-Voltaire
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conclusion
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
“It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”
Neo: “What truth?”
Morpheus: “That you are a slave, Neo.
Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch.
A prison for your mind.”
So ask yourself: Are you thinking your own thoughts, or just repeating what you’ve been told? It’s time to tune your mind to your own frequency—one aligned with who you truly want to be.
Metropolitan 