It's an important thing to doubt our ways of life. To second-guess our ways of thought. To explore brilliant and exotic perspectives, or perhaps some which just take an angle slightly varied from yours. It's an important thing to compare and contrast decades, years, months, weeks and even days in your life, to see how you've grown or changed; to learn the phases one's self would go through.
And that. . . is just from an individuals perspective.
It's quite a word isn't it? Perspective. A point of view, either from one's eye or from one's mental-eye. With perspective, we can look at ourselves in a new light, we can shed the light on faults and shun our benefits, or else vice-versa. Throughout the growth of human civilisation we've gone through a wee bit of a transition. We've grown from individuals to tribes, from tribes to villages, from villages to districts, from districts to civilisations. Nowadays, we're even facing the breaking down of the walls between countries; meta-physical of course, with the advent and growth of communication. Looking at the recent past we can see that some societies were closed off and isolated; thus ignorant. In said societies there would be but a learned man who would have the entire society in the centre of his greedy palms. Without comparing their ideas to others people wouldn't be able to improve upon themselves on a mental level, unable to go through micro-evolution, again, metaphysically speaking. In those days travel = a new world = a higher education. It was that simple.
Today technology has brought us even closer to people across the freaking world than 5 years ago. And if ideologies and bits of information are being sent to and fro in modern society, aren't we all that closer to attaining a higher level of enlightenment than before? With all these different perspectives we should all be fucking philosophers and discussing the meaning of life over tea.
Well, let me explain why; amidst the populous we still have people who choose to be ignorant, people who can't adapt to society and wish to remain in their own little world of ideas while still insisting to be part of an evolving world, people who are not fully educated in schools. For example, the teenager that thinks she's bulletproof and meets up with alexwang73. The raging, middle-aged men who troll youtube insulting people who are different to them just because that's how their dad acted. Muslims, homosexuals, drug-users, African Americans, you name it, we still have people who hate them blindly for being different. We have people who dub an alternate persona and assume to be smarter and more educated than the others around them and then start spewing drivel on things they know nothing about.
The eon of the Internet is a double-edged sword. Why? It's so vast that people can lock themselves in their own little corner of security, where they won't be judged or ridiculed, engulfing them in 'truths' that in the end are nothing more than the walls of a Haven. A Haven of retardation. This is all something I've been contemplating and studying very heavily recently, but I feel it's ready to be unleashed to you all :3
So go forth, learn, and teach me something too.