From time to time, I’m going to reblog one of my posts, that originally never received any or much traction, especially if I feel it’s a write-up that’s worthwhile to repeat. Here’s a little food for thought that originally posted on January 27, 2019.
Quite frankly, they don’t tell us a lot. When initially contemplating this fact, I was very upset about the idea that we, as consumers, rely so much on these industries that are legally allowed to withhold some information that directly affects our well-being. You may be wondering what industries I’m referring to. Well, the regulars… you know… food, medical, health and beauty, environmental, manufacturing, financial, political, educational, religious, agricultural, global, and the list goes on and on; but I’ll stop and move on. The industries have their reasons. And, I guess we have our reasons for wanting to know what they could be hiding from us.
In the age we live in, it’s not acceptable enough to hide behind what I call the “law of omission”: what I don’t know can’t possibly hurt me, right? Wrong! Or, I can’t be held responsible for what I don’t know, right? Wrong, again. We are, to a reasonable extent, responsible for what we don’t know, because the very thing we don’t know may be the thing that has been working against/damaging/hurting/slowly killing us over time.
Furthermore, when I say that we’re responsible to a “reasonable extent”, it’s because I’m realistic and quite aware that we, as human beings, can’t know everything about everything. But those things that could be negatively affecting us and our families are well worth looking into. These are prime opportunities for us to put on our sleuthing hats and get down to some much-needed research.
Now, I don’t like research for the sake of research. Never cared for doing research assignments in school (unless it was on a topic of my choosing) and still don’t totally relish in the process today, but I do recognize its extreme importance in real-life application for myself and those I love. Speaking of those I love, my son, Junior, has been one of the biggest proponents in my household for doing one’s due diligence and researching things out. He stresses the fact that facts and evidence are key to any argument or establishment of a viewpoint; and that without them, you’re working off of basic assumptions and opinions that can be totally misguided without the benefit of information from all sides of a particular topic being researched.
Being able to formulate the most sound and educated conclusion or determination of a matter requires putting in some study time. In other words, Junior is consistently encouraging the family to USE OUR RESOURCES and rightfully so. I heard a profound statement made by a YouTuber in the past and I don’t know if it was his own revelation or something he heard from someone else, but he stated that a person without the knowledge and experience is ALWAYS at the mercy of the one with the knowledge and experience (the one who’s done the research). That statement has stuck with me since I first heard it several years ago and it always will. It’s true. Because I don’t like being at the mercy of decision-makers that don’t have my best interest at heart, I think it’s time to take a page out of my son’s critical-thinking book and get to researching.
Here are my suggestions for worthwhile areas to investigate:
- ideas that you question the validity of.
- ideas/theories/philosophies that go against your common sense reasoning.
- things that are widely-used, readily accepted, and highly advertised.
- areas that you don’t have any or very little knowledge of.
- any areas of interest that can directly affect the overall well-being of your family, such as health, education, finances, and relationships.
REMEMBER: Researching can be both life-changing and life-preserving.
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