From the mind of critic: “If we use it’s raining like cats and dogs, bringing home the bacon, rule of thumb or getting gyped as part of our regular communication, but we dont know what it actually means or where it actually came from, have we ever asked ourselves why? Do we just follow along with what we’ve always heard so we don’t have to think about it, because it has always been done so it must be the right thing? Or do we use these phrases that we’ve always heard, because we feel they best describe our emotion or action, that is thought out by us because it came from us? Many times when we’re journeying into the unknown we see examples of what people did before us, and so we use those because we don’t know any better. These phrases might be completely innocent, or they might be completely vial, but we’d never know it because we didn’t think to ask, or we simply didn’t care to. Maybe if we thought about what our words mean, we would think about what our actions mean. And if we thought about our actions and who they affected and why, maybe the worst parts of our racist, sexist, homophobic, nationalistic, genocidal and murderous history wouldnt be repeated, because we’d critically think about what we’re saying, and about what we’re doing, we would just plain think. Old sayings could simply describe the weather or wealth, or they could demean a whole race of people, or they could describe what was the legal instrument to legally beat your wife. If we ask questions instead of blindly following, we will find that our positive and collective evolution will happen much easier” 🙂