It might be a version of reality and it might help you make certain decisions in your life in regard to your family's safety, education and financial well being but it isn't something to base your internal reality upon.
I blog about the news a lot because I believe people who are informed enough tend to create a better world for the rest of the people who are not informed. As I have traveled the world I have met people who could not read, had never seen a television, but might have listened to a radio once or so. So, often these people have no idea what is happening in the rest of the world because they haven't even been to first grade and might have been working constantly since they were 4 or 5 years old.
However, often people like this have a better grasp of the world and their internal reality than the most educated person I have ever met.
Why is this?
Because they haven't taken the time in their lives to be exposed to so many things that those things just wound up overwhelming them and confusing them.
For example, myself. I was raised by a father who was a valedictorian of his High School Class. His father then (because it was during the Great Depression) would not let his boys go to college but he paid for his girls to go to college. So, the boys (the oldest 3 of the family) were pretty pissed off about this especially after their little sisters got college degrees during the Great Depression.
But then, I was born in the late 1940s after the Great War and I was always told because I was very intelligent like my father, that I could be anything I wanted to be.
However, in the end I was very confused by this. There were just too many choices. And besides my father told me I couldn't be what I wanted to be most: an Airline pilot or a Bush Pilot in Alaska because his youngest brother likely died in a plane crash in 1942 during the war.
So, there really wasn't anything else I wanted to do but become an underwater photographer because I like what Jacques Costeau was doing then. But, when I got real about this doing that or becoming an oceanographer I realized there wasn't enough demand for people in this area to warrant my quest in this direction. So, I liked computers but I really was never a person suited to work in an office my whole life mostly because I don't like talking to people enough for that. I don't mind talking to my wife or kids or friends but I really wouldn't want to be "Talking" for a living like a lot of people do, even though I alwasy got an "A" in public speaking because I have a good speaking voice and I'm not afraid to talk in public.
But, my natural boldness sometimes is a disadvantage because at 6 foot 5 inches I can stand out in a crowd. And if someone makes me angry I might tell them (because of working in construction) from age 12 to 17 and at 21 for about 8 months where to get off. I'm a very direct person and if I'm quiet or not smiling or verbally too aggressive people get nervous around someone 6 feet 5. So, I find I need to reassure people a lot when I'm around in one way or another which can be a real pain at times for me.
So, doing physical things for a living always worked the best for me, like being an entrepreneur, and working outside or building things. I was always much more comfortable actually doing something or building something or creating something rather than following anyone's orders ever.
So, I realized by my late 20s that owning businesses would be best for me.
So, the point I'm trying to make here is often simple is better not only in people in remote places around the world but also right here in the U.S.
When we make things just too complicated often we are just cutting our own throats and making ourselves bleed to death slowly or quickly.
If you are intelligent you are going to get exactly what I'm talking about.
There is an excellent saying about this:
KISS
Keep it simple stupid
If you are saying this to yourselves and not to others it is usually the best that way.
Or just say, "Keep it simple!"
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