TWISI: This Is The Matrix
We have to know that we are born into an experience that is prescribed. When we get here it is already decided how things are and how things will be. Somehow children know that some things are inherently wrong. They often ask why things are they way they are and why things can’t be different? "Why do we have to have money?” “Why do people do bad things?” Children imagine a world where things can be different from the way they are.
As young people we are taught that our imaginings are “make believe” — not real— and we must learn to become contributing members of society. As we grow we are taught, trained and convinced that this experience is reality — it’s the way things are and so, we don’t question. We are “educated” outside of ourselves so that we lose our ability to imagine and create. We simply learn to navigate and negotiate this reality —this life. We don’t stop to think or question “who decided how things should be?” Ultimately that doesn’t matter.
What matters is that it is all paradoxical—it is all lies. Everything we are taught and everything we learn is to keep things the way they are—to perpetuate the Matrix. Society’s degrees are not designed to change the world. If they were, the problems would have been solved long ago. They say “children are the future” and we expect them to change the world but we are sure to raise them so that they are adults who contribute to society—not change it. To paraphrase Einstein “the solution to a problem can never be found at the same level of awareness that created it.”
What is true is that youth can change the world. But they have to do it while they are young before they are intentionally “educated” out of their ability to imagine and create. They must be supported by adults who are mindful enough to go inside themselves and rekindle their imaginations and their spirits. Adults who can remember what it was like to be young. Adults who are willing to “be like a child” in order to create heaven on Earth. The power for change lies in imagination and creativity. That’s the Way I See It! #ThatsTWISI #youthdevelopment
Featured Song: Save the Children by Gil Scott Heron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8-7JDRr9wo