Idea Number 50
VOICE OR ECHO?
Are you a voice or an echo? It seems to me that with the vast increases
in human knowledge and with the magnificent inventions by
which knowledge is disseminated and spread around, we’re all in
danger of just becoming plain parrots, the echo of someone else’s
opinions.
From our daily newspapers, from cinemas, from television, books and
platforms come voices of other people telling us what we should think;
telling us how to live or what to believe. I’m one of these. I sit here and
try to share ideas with you, and as I was thinking about this, I thought,
“There is a grave danger that you will allow my thinking to become your
thinking.” I suddenly realize that I’m not really trying to get you to think
what I think. What I am really trying to do is to get you to think for
yourself. Take the ideas that I communicate, take them away and
contemplate them within yourself and come to your own conclusions