"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better"

Another great day that proved sometimes, just getting on with stuff rather than binting on about really helps.

Had one of those conversations that you'd usually expect to only occur after large quantities of alcohol but not in this case. The subject of the conversation was "will people still seek knowledge and crave learning or will eventually society become so apathetic that the art of questioning, seeking and more importantly sharing knowledge become obsolete?" My view was that the more apathetic one strand of society becomes (think Rise of The Idiots - Nathan Barley) the stronger the opposing strand becomes, since it is harder to be an individual when the herd is massive and you develop stronger views. A sort of super-breed of non-conformists but does this mean that society ceases at the price of individuality (told you it was one of those conversations that usually follows the one about "what's your favourite childhood sweet\cartoon\late night film). I guess what I'm saying is that there must be hope against the endless spoonfeeding of sanitised media, neo-censored thought and general inability to reason. The decline of active and empassioned politics (not so much vanilla-leadership as totally synthetic be-what-ever-you-want-me-to-be leadership), the easy application of stereotyping (yobs, hoodies, chavs etc) makes for lazy journalism - why bother using the richness of the written word to actually try to desctibe something when a insta-quote stereotype works so well. When we are all labelled, we are all controlled - although who controls the labels?

The responsibility of free thinking societies is to ensure that change can happen, that the past is remembered and the future planned rather than controlled and we never forget that the degree of freedom we experience isn't typical for most of the worlds population. Democracy, however much maligned the government, is better than the alternatives. The fact that I can express my views (even if no one ever reads them other than me) means I have a level of autonomy and empowerment that some will never even dream off since you can't dream of what you have no knowledge of.

The thirst for knowledge should never be slackened - you should feel more parched with every new idea.