Thread:Stray Bird/@comment-28818979-20161217150031/@comment-28209103-20170624164853

well all I didn't want to intepret the moral of the story because it's kinda touchy part but personally speaking what I learn from that is that it is fine to believe that the establishment have bad part and as such it's natural to try to fix it, and at the same time there's people who benefited from the system as such it's natural for them to defend it. It is discussion about pragmatism and idealism, however ideally any system should be beneficial for the majority rather than select minority..

your parallel of eating rotten egg pretty much explain it, similar to how taste works IRL you need to have comparison before you can speak bout "bad" taste or "good" taste.. that's it when rotten egg is the thing that you eat your whole life then naturally you'll acquire that taste as your foundation and when you taste and a perfectly boiled egg it will taste wrong to you for you only know the rotten egg as comparison.. to understand which food taste bad, or which food taste good or where is the "tasty" part of foreign food first and foremost you have to make contact with it, most of the time it'll taste wrong e.g as someone living in the asia, european food seems to be underseasoned for my taste, not to mention there's a lot of exotic food where I lived for example a half-rotten durian mixed with pepper and cumin to be eaten with dried fried fish, try to imagine that.

Just like a food, most people usually are reluctant to move from the taste they used to. it can be religion, social belief, dogma, or even common opinion they heard and used as basis their whole life. My concern bout awareness can be summed up with example above, that is during school one of the most important mind-set to be planted is the ability to make balanced comparison of anything.. to realize that opposing opinion most of the time have truth behind it, as such they had to understand it before rejecting it.. basically more abstract form of Thesis, Anti-Thesis and Synthesis from Hegel. From there on out people will realize a lot of thing, and I hope it'll led to a lot of good thing.

What I aspire is that we should let people eat different kind of egg and let them judge and value it themselves, rather than giving people only chicken egg and said that it's the best egg that it'll ever be just so the egg seller will continue to profit. A diverse education is the proper path to human advancement, that's what I believe, not just philosophy, people need to learn the ABC of anything that matters in life, agriculture, accounting, politics, ideology, etc. The rationale is simple, that by learning a various POV in a subject a person will naturally become more open to new idea, for his whole life are filled with re-thinking of what he previously learnt..