LOSS OF INNOCENSE
It can be argued that the best time to be alive is when you are a child. Innocence is perhaps the most endearing quality of children. Once it's gone, it's gone forever.
Arundhati Roy once said…
The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking.
What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it and grow from it.
_ both quotes wereccopied from Goodreads
Purposeful Innocense.
My brother has chosen his retirement to be a time of purposeful innocence. He spends his time playing golf and snooker with his buddies, and reading fiction. He won’t accept phone calls, but once a day he checks his phone messages and chooses if and how to respond. Podcasts are of no interest to him. When he wants the news, he asks his wife or turns to the Toronto Star and mainstream television.
Highly educated, with a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, my brother’s critical analysis abilities are well developed. With these abilities, he has chosen to wall himself off from negative outside influences about which he can do nothing. Seems like a good strategy considering the amount of fear-mongering and confusing information that surrounds us all if we choose to let it in.
I am the oldest of four brothers.
We are all very different in our interests and priorities. Unlike the brother described above, I immerse myself in a variety of topics and activities that expose me to the outside world. I write daily, either for this My Life Lens post or for another ebook. I follow over a dozen podcasts which cover topics like Canadian and American politics, economics, government overreach, political theory, artificial intelligence and its applications, human consciousness and health&fitness.
I lost my innocence as a child because the responsibilities of adulthood required it. Like my younger brother, I could choose retirement as the time to regain at least some of the lost innocence of my youth, but this doesn’t fit my temperament.
Freedom of Informed Choice means different things to different people as is the case of my brother and I. This truth is so obvious to me that I cannot understand why it is not universally respected and held up as the highest standard for a Civil Society.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if every citizen desired this freedom for each other by engaging in mutually-respectful attitudes and behaviours. Unfortunately, this does not fit the temperament of many people who cannot stop themselves from meddling in the affairs of others.
I’ve often felt the desire to disappear - either into the wilderness or just “tune out” living on my little farm, as if nothing was happening in the world. But...that is not my temperament either. I can’t stand by seeing what I see and knowing what I know. In that, Gene, we are alike.
“And look ! The tears of the oppressed,
But they have no comforter-
On the side of their oppressors there is power.” Ecclesiastes 4:1
What heart can see a need and turn away? What mind perceives injustice yet fails to speak? How could I find enjoyment within the matrix? You can not hide from corruption - it is a rot, that if not cleansed will spread indefinitely.
There is no purposeful innocence only purposeful ignorance. I am sorry but I had to say it.
Gene, I can appreciate what you are saying in this article. My hope is that those people who live in purposeful innocence (PI) will not become advocates and pushers of the narrative for the next plandemic. It is my belief, that if they choose to be purposefully innocent, then they should have no voice to reprimand those of us who took the time to educate ourselves by reading all from many various sources that were uncensored as well as listening to podcasts that are not of the MSM narrative, and who came to a different conclusion than they did. However, more than anything, I wish these PI people would wake the heck up and realize that their reality, is NOT TRUE REALITY of the current situation in the world, and we need as many people as possible to be fully engaged in what is happening around us. Blessings to you.