There are those who are content in their ignorance, and there are those who have contempt for their ignorance. I am the latter. It is my impression that the majority are the former, and are happy with it. And therein lies the problem with my generation. We discuss Oscar nominations, Victoria's Secret Angels, frivolous things that do not matter for the sake of distraction. Some of us want to be them, most of us live our lives unfulfilled. We cry about it.
I listen to my friends rue the thought of being a "cog" in the "corporate machine". I have done the same. Leading the life that has been lived one million times, it is not appealing. Original thought seems like a myth now. But in their awareness they cannot find it in themselves to leave, or care enough to change it.
Do any of us feel powerful enough to wonder about the world around us? To care about our governments that claim to know best... do they? We blindly trust and I worry there will be a point where we do not see anymore at all.
I do care. I want to see. I will to know. This is why I am studying International Relations. I do not care if others feel I do not have conviction, or vocation. I do. I will not justify myself.
I hear my Dad in my ear, "why would you want to go into something so degrading as intelligence?" I wonder why this is even a question: who would ever willingly choose to be the one without information?
And thus, I am the latter.
Why aim to be a cog, when you can aim to be the machine?
