Whatever They Say Goes

Positions of authority. we work for them, some of us work with them and the lucky ones ARE them. Everybody believes a person in a position of power, if the President says that cold air rises (we all know it doesn't) and his "yes-men" nod to it, then you'd better believe that cold air rises! I'm not saying that the president would force you to agree with him, i'm saying that some people might, cos he's the president he's always right.

that may not be my best example of authority figures and thier words.

alternatively we have teachers. My english teacher, Miss T is a good teacher, funny, smart and more lenient than most. bu occasionally she can be wrong. Blondie was trying to think of taglines in an advertising project, miss T knocked one out of the park. i was advertising "Wicked" as though it were a movie (one day i hope it will be), and i was brainstorming taglines. i suggested to Blondie: "how about: 'are you feeling a little wicked?' ", to which Blondie promptly replied no. i then employed the help of Miss T, who suggested the same thing. Blondie then cried out in delight and said how great that was. when i say it it's stupid bt when a teacher says the exact same thing its like discovering penicillin?

the thing about authority figures is that they don't like to proved wrong, so people just go with it, i generally try to break this mold and challenge teachers to prove what they're saying. some of them just splutter and say that it's "in the book". those history books were written by mere people, like you and me, smarter perhaps, but people.

If i learnt all that and more and wrote a book about it i don't think it would published, not only because i'm only 14 but also that i don't have a Phd. i could be the smartest person in the world but without that degree i'm nothing to the Nobel prize guys! All i'm saying is that we put so much faith in books written by mere people like you and me that we often forget our own opinions and just go along with what they say. I bet that if Albert Einstein, at the height of his credibility and praise had said that the sky was falling or that superman was real then people would have believed him, at least for a little while.

all i'm saying is that history was written by humans, humans who make mistakes and should be challenged! don't just listen to a documentary, they have their sources which they regard as fact, generally books or something, written by HUMANS. perhaps something got lost in translation, or was over analyzed and just meant what it said. it's the same with Shakespeare, people over analyze him all the time.