The Trouble With People

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard

“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent” -Isaac Asimov

A fact is a fact. But it is important to remember that it is the process that makes a fact a fact. The process, the coming to, the fruition, the inference, warrant and evidence is what matters. The process matters because it builds the argument, the act of strength rather than the illusion. It is the process that makes us human, that makes us people rather than simply apes that stand upright and bellow emptily.

To be a person, to consider one’s self a person is to understand the process that it takes to be a person, to differentiate one’s self from those that simply accept. That predisposition to be a part, to be accepted, to be liked, to be the same, to circumvent the all-important process is the ultimate failure of us as people.

The trouble with people is that we are people without a process. We carry our insouciance with pride and relish the feeling that it gives us. We arrogantly believe what isn’t true, and certainly refuse to believe what is true. We haughtily wave our flags and flagrantly dismiss the one thing that makes us civil: the process to become intelligent.