Mind you, it's not everybody agreeing with you, but with everyone else, about everything. Anything you could think of... That would require we all knew everything. Yes, everything there is to know about anything. We'd know what makes good music good. We'd know what makes a movie bad. We'd know how the universe is structured, and how our reality unfolds. We'd know anything, beyond any shadow of doubt. Anything would have a scale to use in order to weigh it up to anything else. There would be only right or wrong, true or false. Because we'd know everything. There would be no 'ifs' or 'buts'.
We'd need no currency, as we'd all agree how to share our resources. There would be no doubt upon the fairness of sharing. Nobody would question the status quo.
We'd have no tastes. There would be no room for error. We'd all be the same. You could love or hate anybody all the same. They'd all agree with your feelings. Everything would be perfect, and nobody would make mistakes, because we would all know beforehand what would happen if we strayed. And if we strayed, and everybody would agree with us, then there would be no mistake to actually start about, would there?
We wouldn't need to think, since we already know everything. We wouldn't need to speak, because everybody else would know what we'd say. Silence would encompass all. We would sit and watch our existence pass, and we would live forever, as life will have had given us all it's knowledge.
There would be no conversations. Because nobody talks about stuff they completely agree on. There would be no challenge, no proof, no arguments. There would be no gossip, no eavesdropping, no shrugging. We'd stop singing songs about love, and making movies about war. We'd have no purpose, no pursuit, no quest and no rewards.
So please, disagree with me, and make my life interesting.
Delerium - Eternal Odyssey
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I wish I could disagree with you...yet, at least this time, it is impossible for me to do so. Two of my favorite quotes say exactly the same thing.
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” Dudley Field Malone
“If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.” General George S. Patton
For me life is about growth, and growth is about movement, difference of ideas and love. Strangely enough even love needs to grow in order to survive, it needs diversity and originality...nothing is ever still, for what is still is already dead.
the way I see it, people agreeing with each other is not such a bad thing. Consider: when two or three people share the same opinion about something, it's called that they have an accord. When more people agree about something, it's an ideology, and when lots of people share visions, opinions, that is a current. Common beliefs are the basis of civilizations, cultures, artistic currents, they're what holds people together. At least, that's the way I see things. Of course, nobody can expect total agreement, cause you know what they say, "you can't please everyone". ;)
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