How Would You Think Without It

I hear some college students claim they don’t stand against free speech, all they want to ban is what’s ‘hateful,’ it will ‘improve’ society. In truth they will do no such thing, they serve a truly evil cause, when they seek to take rights away they are breaking natural laws. That, you think, should be quite enough to make them reconsider things, not to mention without free speech how would a person even think? How could you even take in the world without seeing something that offends? We are annoyed by countless things, and they bother us to no end. I get pissed off every winter when it’s rain instead of snow, I get annoyed when comedians chose their politics over jokes. Hell, I get irked by so many things, but I never would ban people’s talk, to survive this world every idea is something which you must take stock. Whether to accept or reject, or just peruse curiously, if you are to learn anything new you must broaden the things that you see. And if you cannot talk about them how will ideas be tested and tried? How will you know what is the truth and what is a damned, dirty lie? Society’s quite Darwinian, it destroys things that do not work, subject our ideas to this process and we’ll find out which go berserk and which ones, somehow, stand the test of time, which ones encompass a human truth, the process may seem crazy at times, perhaps that’s what sets off the youths. They don’t yet know chaos is what life is, the inspired mixed with the obscene, they still lack the experience to see past those Utopian dreams. They don’t understand what censorship does to a good person within, death of the soul, like death of the flesh is a prognosis lethal and grim. They can’t remember folks in camps who did not think the Soviet way, or that when expression is silenced it’s bullets that carry the day. Or that difference, even conflict, often is what spurs on new notions, that speech is a ship discovering a vast and endless mental ocean. Though the journey can be quite rough, it is what builds wisdom and wit, Free Speech is never optional, you can’t learn or grow without it. And to those who try to drown in out, you’re all standing upon quicksand, sinking into a sterile group-think, demeaned and deprived of what’s human. If you want to really see the world, and for your full potential reach, let them all talk, and remember you’ve a duty to protect Free Speech.