The voice inside your head can be fashioned, shaped, and re-recorded by your individual THINKING processes or completely taken over by today's herd mentality. You must decide whether "to go along to get along" or to be an independent thinker. This decision is a critical one for you and ultimately for your offspring. It is a decision that requires you to take some decent amount of time over as you strive to make the right choice for yourself and your dependants if you have, or plan to have, kids [see photo].
Collective thought is surprisingly pervasive today; perhaps this is because it is themed by FEAR. Fear of the unknown is what often turns individuals into "herd creatures". Once inside the herd an individual can attain a false sense of importance if he or she accepts the virtual signalling being propagated by today's proficient and persistent fear mongers. Collective thinking today is geared towards a fear of Climate Change, inequity [unequal outcomes for individuals], gender discrimination, the covid-19 virus, those who do not wear a mask, etc. Once you enter this collective thinking mode your inner voice must match the messaging coming from the media, government, corporations, and social movements.
However... if you are to avoid the type of cognitive dissonance that will send you nutty then you must surrender your innate ability to think for yourself.
Richard
My mind as a minimalist is developed on a unique sense of what I call minimal-you which, in turn, is based on individual needs not collective wants. For instruction on how to establish your sense of you: go to minimal-you.com and hit the "become a minimalist" button in the banner heading. This will take you to a payment scheme for a 10 day programme that will teach you how to design, enforce, and live with mind filters: these help you to be the best person you can be.
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