DRIVING IN THE RIGHT LANE MIGHT BE WRONG
1/24/08
200 million cars on American back roads and highways are all driven in the right lane. It is the most amazing example of public conformity that I can think of. Imagine 200 million cars with 200 million drivers all driving to different destinations and all in the right lane.
Imagine now that same 200 million people voting for the same person for president all driving to the voting booths in the right lane. Actually only 50 million out of 300 million actually vote for anything. The majority of these 50 million are the people that keep the other 150 million drivers driving in the right lane. If 150 million drivers voted to drive in the left and center lanes no one would drive in the right lane any more. Laws would be passed against driving in the right lane.
Of course today everyone has to drive in the right lane if they expect to get anywhere. But where are they all going to? Regardless where we all go we are told that we must get there by driving in the right lane. If we do what we are told, and told to do it the right way we must do it that way, other wise it would be the wrong way,right? Maybe.
What is the right way and who are they who say it is the right way? Too often the right way is really the wrong way. Too often the authority depended on for determiing right, is wrong. If this is the outcome of placing trust in the right way, then what about all who placed their trust in the wrong way, and found it was the right way . Why do Americans drive on the right side of the road, and from the left side of their vehicles; when the people living in European countries, and in most of the countries in the world, drive on the left side of the road, and from the right side of their vehicles ? Are all other societies wrong, and Americans right? Americans think so.
I’ve come to believe that wrong and right can be right and wrong. What one society does might be considered right for them, though wrong for others. Human sacrifices were considered wrong by certain civilizations, and right by others. Those who saw it as wrong decided they would murder millions of people to stop ceremonial human sacrifices . Conquering civilizations in the name of spreading Christianity, caused the death , murder, and torture of millions of people, to force them to believe in a foreign God; who was blood sacrificed to appease a greater god, for the betterment of humanity. What was the difference? What was the big trade off in religions? Who were driving in the right lane then, and who are driving now? Who says murdering millions in the name of a self sacrificing god is right? How can anyone believe this? Who gives them their authority? Who believe this nonsense, and why do they believe they have the right to tell others what to believe? Killing and conquering millions of people in the Middle East to spread freedom and democracy, makes absolutely no sense to most of the world, except to the Right Lane driving Americans ; even when they are truthfully explained the reason for U.S involvement in the Middle East they shrugg it off as a left lane conspiracy theory. Right lane Americans are told to memorize this statement “We must not ask why, and we must think what we are told to , by church, educational, and government authorities. We do what we are told to do, and will face and drive into all on coming traffic about to collide into us, we must never change lanes; because we are on the right side of the road.”
Millions drive in the right lane because it is now a law, that orders them to do so. People do what they do because someone tells them to do it. I prefer to travel through life at my own speed, and live the way I choose to I live, believing in what I choose to believe. When an on coming car is about to collide with me, I either pull off to the emergency lane to avoid a collision, or turn onto another lane, and continue driving. I believe that any lane , that best avoids a crash is the right lane.
L.A. STEEL
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