The Freedom to Question
I grew up believing that questioning was simply something Americans did.
We questioned things. We disagreed. We argued. We complained about presidents, made jokes about politicians, read different newspapers, voted, protested, and changed our minds.
I never thought of that as an extraordinary privilege.
I thought it was simply part of being American.
The freedom to question.
Lately, I've found myself thinking about that freedom differently.
Because what happens when questioning becomes a form of disloyalty?
What happens when disagreeing with a leader is portrayed as being against the country?
Something important begins to shift.
The question is no longer:
Is this true?
It becomes:
Are you with us?
And those are very different questions.
The Space Between What We Are Taught and What We Believe
A closed system doesn't simply have beliefs. It has rules about believing.
And once questioning itself becomes a problem, that little space begins to disappear.
I've come to think that one of the greatest gifts we can give another person is not our answers. It's room for them to develop their own.
Because I don't want someone else's inner world to become a copy of mine.
I want them to have their own.
Perhaps that's one of the quiet forms of freedom we don't talk about enough: the freedom to have your own mind.
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