Boxed into freedom. The basics in boxism.

Academia (University), the land of fee thought, (it is not free) a place you can learn how to think ‘outside the box’ or ‘critical thinking’. Critically thinking on thinking outside the box, lead me to conclude; whatever box you get in you cannot get out of a box, so I made the box infinite, any possibilities. Reality is an infinite sphere in an eternal box, but don’t worry about that now.

I was never a person for the system, in my younger years I was rebellious. I had a motto ‘Conform to non-conformity, literally’, my observation of that behaviour was; it was not very productive and at times left me on the wrong side of the law, which I took on the chin.

The past decade has been a serious of uncanny incidences, an adventure I didn’t ask for, but an adventure it still is. At university I was involved in a group discussion on pollution and how to address the problem. The lecture involved the concept of political correctness (PC) when being in groups and being PC with people’s ideas and/or beliefs in all settings including the academic setting.

I had already modified the box by making it infinite, then after reading on indoctrination, brainwashing and institutionalization. My conclusion is; ideas are in a surreptitious way, through psychological means and/or peer group methods, forced onto people by almost all established institutions.

I needed to find a method to ensure I was not fooled in any way. I adapted my original motto to; Conform to nonconformity intellectually, I am naught but a Brain with reason and logic, no emotions, no self.

From all I have read on truth and lies I have concluded; the best lies are all lie or have lots of truth and political correctness doesn’t care for truth.

The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016 was post-truth – an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’ (Oxford Dictionary, 2016). Post-truth is from the political paradigm.

People are encouraged to be politically correct rather than being truthful. The political paradigm is considered lest honest by Ad Populum (The People’s observations) backed up by peer reviewed material. The evidence suggests humanity has placed truth in the political paradigm. Which many suggest is the most corrupt paradigm.

Academia (university) is no place for truth dodging, its purpose is gaining knowledge, truthfully and objectively. Challenging, concepts, paradigms and thoughts through a process of impartial examination of information and objective reasoning leading to a logical conclusion. Political correctness is concerned with not offending, it is based on emotional reasoning. Emotional reasoning can be illogical and is also subjective.

Often core beliefs are discussed and others may not share that belief. Belief is part of a person’s personality it attributes to social behaviours and perceptions of self. An adult has had time to form basic beliefs which may change in time. When these beliefs are questioned it is natural that it instantly becomes personal. A way to depersonalize belief as to not be offended is to practice just being a brain with reason and logic only. The ability to disprove your belief to yourself is a way to find the truth in what you believe.

Whether it is reasonable or unreasonable to believe in a God, generally depends on the person speaking. A paradigm of Academia is law and from law come the concept of Civil Rights. What a person believes is an evolving process over life. Removing information from Academia because of philosophical biases would be thought control and make Academia a proper box.

Things from out of the Box. What if I told you; reality is made up of 5-dimensional 1s and 4-dimensional 0s, that only a 1 can effect another 1 or a 0; that a 0 cannot ‘create’ anything unless there is an input (a cause). Life is the 1, nonlife is the 0. A machine, no matter how much information it spits out, requires a 1 for new data to be acquired. Only a 1 can create that’s why AI is ‘artificial’, merely a toy, a clever mimic.

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