Jesus is crucified
Socrates is poisoned
Gautam Buddha is stoned,
these people have not harmed anybody.
They were the most loving, most compassionate,
human beings possible but they committed a crime and the crime's name is thinking.
No society wants
any of its members to think. Thinking is dangerous.
The society wants robots,
who simply do whatever is being told to them,
who cannot say no,
that is impossible for them. They are machines,
it is not accidental that every
developed society is replacing
men by machines. Machines are obedient never subversive
have you ever heard any machine to be a revolutionary or a rebel?
It has not happened up to now that we had to crucify a machine.
Machines are very respectable people.
I am not a machine. When Galileo found that the earth moves around the sun
the pope called him to his court and asked him to change
the sentence in his book because it goes against Christianity.
Galileo is one of the people
I love. I love him for his genius for his thinking and I love him for his sense of humor.
He said there is no problem.
I will change the sentence
but your honors
remember my changing the sentence will not change the fact
the earth will still go around the sun.
You can kill me, you can burn my book
but nothing will change the course the earth will still continue going around the sun.
Now Galileo is subversive.
He is not listening to the authorities he is not even listening
to the holy bible.
He is
only ready to listen
to something rational,
scientific, that which can be proved by evidence.
Yes I am subversive
and only the subversive people are responsible for all the progress of the world.
whatever you have
the whole civilization
the whole scientific growth, all technology
is the contribution of subversive people. It is not the contribution of the superstitious.
So I am happily declaring that I am subversive. Absolutely subversive.
To belong to that category is a great honor.
It is belonging to jesus christ. It is belonging to socrates.
It is belonging to Galileo. It is belonging to Gautam buddha.
These are the real human beings.
Others are only part of crowd,
cogs in the wheel, the society decides what is right and they never question.
The society decides what is wrong and they never question.
What is the difference between animals and men?