From the mind of critic: “If we know our plants won’t live without water, and we don’t have any water because of drought, do we take what little water others have to use for ourselves? Do we try to fix the drought, by conserving what fluids we recieve through extremely crude filters and flanges? Or do we try to usher in rain through not only prayers and rain dances, but by being courageously vigilant in finding out why the drought happened, and what exactly we can do so we never allow it to happen again? When we find ourselves un-knowledgable about a certain topic, event, religion or culture, there can be many paths we can take. We can get mad at the poeple that have more knowledge than us, because we see them as being pompous, jerk know it alls. We can get mad at the people who have less knowledge than us, because we view them as no talent, know nothings. We can also see others at various knowledge levels, and understand that if we want to gain more knowledge, we don’t have to take or be taken, we gain by sharing. Once we realize that we never have to feel threatened, intimidated, egotistical or narcisstic when comparing our smarts to others, we’ll see that labeling, seperating and grouping ourselves along idelogical and intellectual lines, makes us all dumber because it’s like we’re saying, it’s okay to be stagnant and we don’t need to know anymore. Our plants can’t live without water, like we can’t live without knowledge. We just have to remember that whether we’re watering our plants or our souls to sustain life, to replenish doesn’t take away from others, it adds to others. If we admit that we don’t care if we know stuff, we’re admitting that we don’t care if we’re controlled” 🙂