On Judgment

Judgment has been an inseparable part of our lives. Let me be clear first, judgment in this post is not judgment in the meaning of consideration, but judgment in term of assigning certain presupposed value to something, labeling something is good or bad compared with certain presupposed value.

We were judged since we were kids, then we were judged when we entered school. Then in family, society, and the list goes on and on. What is this judgment all about? Judgment brings order within the society. And civilization springs from order. But it also brings curse, which is conservatism, reluctance f or growth and progress, feeling good in the comfort zone. And we are all get use to it. We have norms, rules, and laws.

In one way, it helps us to quickly make decision in daily lives, so we don’t have to ponder each time we need to make a decision, something like an autopilot. But when the course is rough, any sensible pilot will manual ride and turn the autopilot off. The problem in our society is we enjoy too much of autopilot, we let other people (government, religious leader, columnist, etc) to speak behalf of us. We cease to have our own opinion.

This kind of autopilot is shutting down our rationality; surrender it to the manufacture of the autopilot (a.k.a. government, religious leaders, etc). And it begins mostly in school.

to be continued