Always be questioning:

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Always be questioning.

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Everything.

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Question everything.

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Just because something has been done a certain way till now doesn’t mean it has to be like that forever.

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Just because you’ve been told how something is or the story behind something doesn’t make it true.

Go figure it out for yourself.

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Go ask questions.

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Then find the answers on your own.

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Go look for them.

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Don’t just blindly trust your friends or family.

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Here’s a secret that no one told me.

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Everyone is making it up.

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Everybody.

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No one knows anything.

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We pretend we do.

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That we’re so smart.

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That we know what’s going on.

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We don’t.

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Most people don’t.

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So go find out for yourself.

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If lots of people are saying something is the way it is, you should be more likely to trust them.

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But that doesn’t mean it’s right.

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Doesn’t mean it’s true.

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It’s important to question everything.

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Just know that when you do this, you will be an outcast.

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You will go down some weird paths.

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Ones other people would never dare to.

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And it will lead you to some weird answers.

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A recent example for me was the Telepathy Tapes.

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The most incredible podcast I’ve ever heard.

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The one that completely changed how I see the world, consciousness, god and my spirituality.

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Will other people arrive at the same conclusion I did?

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Absolutely not.

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This is where it’s ok to have a different belief.

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Just because my question led me to a different personal answer doesn’t mean that your answer is wrong.

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It’s just not my answer and that’s fine.

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We can both live happily and peacefully not agreeing on everything.

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But before you dig your heels on your opinion, question it.

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Look at it from another perspective.

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Argue the opposite case.

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Understand the context someone else is using to get to their opinion.

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All of that matters.

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Which news sources are they consuming?

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Who are their friends?

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Who’s their family?

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What have those people believed their whole life?

People are sheep.

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They tend to aggregate their opinions around one another.

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That’s ok.

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But if you want to be different, you have to question things.

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Question the world you’ve been told.

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Happened to me with America.

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Grew up as a Canadian only watching American news.

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American propaganda.

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Blindly believed America was spreading peace and democracy around the world.

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All of that is a lie.

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The US has been the most destructive country in the world since world war 2.

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Involved in more wars than any other country.

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Afghanistan.

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Iraq.

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Vietnam.

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Korea.

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The Gulf War.

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Trillions of dollars spent and for what?

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What peace and democracy did those places get?

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None.

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Instead millions are dead at the hands of America, incuding their own people.

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They’re the ones causing all this destruction around the world.

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And if it’s not them directly, they’re the ones supplying the weapons and ammunition to do it.

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How did I stumble upon this?

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It took me years.

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Years of compiling evidence and opinion from people I find interesting.

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Doesn’t mean they’re right, but they do make you question what you’ve been told.

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Here’s a list of resources.

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How the World Works - Noam Chomsky.

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Requiem for the American Dream - Noam Chomsky.

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Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins.

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Watch Vice - the movie about President Dick Cheney and how he lied to get America into Iraw.

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Then it’s a bunch of Youtube videos.

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Here’s a list of declassified intelligence operations that should blow your mind.

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USS Liberty - how Israel blew up an American warship and never apologized for it.

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Lavon Affair - how Israel used spies to plant bombs in Egypt and blame it on the Muslim brotherhood to ruin Egypt’s ties with the West.

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Operation Mockingbird - how the US intelligence agency controlled the media during the cold war to get them to do their bidding.

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MK Ultra - how the CIA used drugs to try to control people’s minds.

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Operation PaperClip - how the CIA recruited Nazi scientists, some of whom even worked on the Apollo missions.

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Operation Northwoods - how the CIA planned fake flag attacks on the US homeland disguising themselves as Cubans so they could go to war with Cuba and take out Fidel Castro.

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My Lai Massacre - how the US army murdered hundreds of innocent Cambodians in cold blood for no reason.

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Then you have all the CIA coups.

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Jonny Harris does a great job explaining it here.

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Haiti.

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Chile.

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Panama.

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Guatemala.

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Iran.

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Nicaragua.

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They intentionally overthrew the governments of all these places so they could install leaders who would be beholden to them and American corporations.

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Is anyone going to tell you about all of this?

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Absolutely not.

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You have to find this out on your own.

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That’s what I did.

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That’s how I ended up learning about these situations.

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Once you see this, you can’t unsee it.

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America’s foreign policy has always been an imperialist one.

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Just like all the great empires before it.

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So America might not be this great place after all.

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Again, never got to this point on my own.

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Was forced to question everything.

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To see where my curiosity took me.

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Do the same.

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Please.

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We need more people to question the status quo.

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To not blindly accept or listen to what they’ve been told.

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Corporations and governments want dumb docile citizens.

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The world needs more smart, curious people who don’t want to accept what they’ve been told.

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That starts with asking questions.

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Always be questioning.

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