Today - What I Believe In
Today, I am a high school student, graduating this summer. I have been attending the Natural Science program. At times I have been questioning my choice since I am not interested in the natural sciences, but I’ve concluded that this was the best choice. For one, it is the most challenging program and provided me with lots of useful experience and knowledge (maybe). Secondly, studying the natural sciences you really improve in rational thinking and logic.
Today, I no longer believe in knowledge in its traditional sense. Traditional knowledge is defined by me as that found in fact books and learned in school during classes. I can’t compete with that knowledge, and I don’t need to either. I have billions of Chinese and Indians to learn that for me, they are cheap and efficient. Traditional knowledge is abundant. Instead, I believe more in general knowledge, people skills, etiquette and creative knowledge.
Today, I am not a racist. But I do believe in profound biological and cultural differences between people. I am all for equality, but strongly believe that this pretending of “we are all the same” is the wrong approach. We are not the same. Not inside nor outside.
Starting each paragraph with “Today” is getting repetitive so I’ll skip it.
I believe in equality between the sexes, but am quick to see flaws in arguments, which is why I have dismissed feminism as a viable choice to accomplish this. I am against all kinds of forced quotas.
I believe strongly in the separation of family, church and state. I despise people and governments who mixes these elements together.
I want to be fooled to follow religion, but seeing the bloodstained history and all the argumentational flaws I can’t. I have problems with attributing my success or failures to someone else.
I believe in class, but not the inheritance of it. Nowadays, it feels like something more temporary. If you achieve a high status, your kids can easily blow it away after and your grandchildren can might as well be nobodies.
I try not to blame others for my failures. I am not a victim of my ethnicity, class, geo-location, beliefs, society, time or anything else. If anything, I am a victim of myself. I know that anyone could at a certain points of their lives have become anything. I am easily inspired by movies and stories that tell me this. Examples would be The Pursuit of Happyness and American History X.
I do not believe in definitive rightness or wrongness in any given situation. Politically, I am often tested as being in the absolute center. I am not a lackey of the media. For instance, I believe that totalitarianism is more beneficial to the general population in certain situations.
Most of all, I firmly believe in myself.
You can disagree with me on any point, but please do not make it the last one.
