i've been watching closely all the events happening in Egypt lately, and one thing thathas really gotten under my skin is the government blocking access to social networking sites to prevent people from expressing their opinions. freedom of speech, to me, is the most important human right. without it, each and every human being is left without a voice, opinion, and influence to change their world. freedom of information, too is extremely near and dear to my heart. for without the access to new information [or the correction of false information], humanity will remain ignorant. by remaining ignorant,we will be unable to rise to a higher plane of consciousness,and, by extension, will be unable to get itself out of the dangerous rut we have found ourselves in.
this act of censorship got me thinking, though. it got me thinking about how America itself blocks information from its citizens. the government does this out of fear, as it does most things. fear of the population becoming enlightened. fear of being challenged. fear of being overthrown. fear of humanity realizing that there is a different, and better way of living that the current government cannot provide.
i came to realize that America indeed has become its own worse enemy. it preaches freedom and liberty. it gives its citizens freedom of speech and information, freedom to express their opinions...or so we think. don't get me wrong, i am NOT complaining. i am aware that most of the world doesn't even have half of therights that Americans so foolishly take for granted. i realize that in somecountries, one can [and will] be killed for expressing an opinion that is contradictory to the status quo. my goal with this note is just to bring to light that Americans don't realize how much information is being hidden from them. censorship. this is the dirty word that America has always stood firmly against. but my question is: does the government indeed know that it's keeping its population ignorant, or are they truly that ignorant themselves? most people would agree with the former, that the government has been withholding information from Americans for years, even since the country was first founded.
the values that America was supposedly founded on [life, liberty, justice, freedom] do not, and have never existed in this country. the government has cast the illusion that we can say and do whatever we feel is right. this, of course, is a lie. there is a faint line separating what the government is telling us and what it is not. this line is so faint that many times, Americans have crossed it without even realizing it. next thing they know, they are being threatened, questioned, arrested, etc.
all i want [and i'm sure many people concur] is for the government of this country to shed light on all the secrets it has withheld from us for generations. they say they withhold information from us for our own safety and security. but is it not more dangerous for the masses to be ignorant than for them to have a false sense of security? look back on history and tell me that that statement isn't true. censorship and domination eventually leads to unrest, protesting, uprising, and, in more severe cases, revolution. if this government [and, indeed, governments around the world] wishes to instill peace, prosperity, and true security, it must come clean and be truthful with the population it presides over. i just don't understand why humanity STILL hasn't learned this lesson. it's as if we're still in the Dark Ages. when will the glorious rays of Enlightenment finally break through the black clouds of Ignorance?
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