Rejecting Authority is the only way to see true reality.

If your mind is being influenced by external source, ie: other people, then any concept you form in your mind is subject to any irrationalities and non sequiturs that those other sources have used.

Let me explain using the most dominant and irrational form of authority in today’s world, religion. Religion controls billions of people using concepts not based on reality. It tells people how to think, and what moral guidelines to follow. Worst of all though, it undermines the most basic concepts of reality, and becomes the entire foundation for one’s thinking.

As a child, you see the world around you only in reality. It is all you know. However as you are exposed to religion by adults, your grasp on reality is instantly shattered. You no longer think by the same set of rules. By believing in something that cannot be proven, you now see the world through eyes of faith, and then, nothing is out of the bounds of possibility. From the moment your mind has faith, you no longer see reality.

Following on from this, you look to be guided in every area of your life. You no longer think for yourself. Once you believe that something is watching over you, ruling you, and everything you do is answerable to by this imaginary being, you become afraid. You want to ensure you’re doing the right thing so you don’t go to hell or wherever it is you’re being threatened with. So you begin to follow all authority. Before you know it, you have no mind of your own and are unable to make decisions unless you follow the rules of all authority.

“Thinking men cannot be ruled.” – Ayn Rand

Of course, we need rules and moral guidelines to live by. The danger however, is to let others prescribe them for us. They create the rules and guidelines but don’t always do it based on reality. All authority is dangerous. Religion and government have power over us because we allow them to. We look to be led, to be controlled. And they are in complete control of our lives.

Most of the time the government acts for good, but it has the potential to do whatever it wishes, and it will act on these wishes whether they are based on reality or not. Some prime examples include the limitations on stem cells and the patriot act. These decisions were made based on lies and fabrications, and they limit society.

By using our own mind to think in uncorrupted, rational concepts based only on reality, we come to conclusions that are shocking to the irrational, non-reality based masses. A couple of examples? What about the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, the Earth is round, and matter is made up of atoms (something that religious people said was a heresy when it was discovered)?

Religion and government continue to control us, sending us to war, taking away our basic liberties, hindering medical progress. It is all because people are still, after all these centuries, thinking in corrupted, irrational concepts not based on reality, and they do this because their reality based mind is corrupted by faith at an early age.

We must stop the poisoning and indoctrinating of young minds by religion, politics and the media. We must teach our children to see only reality, and then watch as they grow into incredible value creating people.