Hail to thee rebels

This one's for those who challenge the norms. Those who refuse to "conform". These are the few and far between souls who choose to question before they follow, before they accept history and tradition at face value. The Howard Roarks of our dreams and the Mahatma Gandhis of our times who choose to do it their way.

I salute the audacity of the rebel with a cause. Of the man who stands up for what he believes and lives out the meaning of his convictions. It's hard to imagine what the world today might have been without the vision of these individuals. Had a man with a telescope and a fire in his belly not challenged the didactic doctrines of the church that sought to have us believe that the sun went round the earth only because they found it biblically convenient, we wouldn't have looked beyond the realm of our blue planet.

We understand the world around us by questioning. This the maxim that science is based upon. Unless we question often enough and earnestly enough, we're unlikely to find answers. And event then most of us fail to question. Because we "conform"..... and take things at face value more often than not. A society that must foster a healthy spirit of inquiry must learn to respect those who inquire. As a child moves through his formative years of education, he must be made to believe that questioning is a virtue.

An integral part of learning to question is keeping your mind open. Then again, one must learn to ask the right questions. And have the right intentions when asking the right questions. With malice towards none at all.

In the spirit of the ideas I elucidated, I quote these lines from an Apple commercial which carries the credo: Think Different

Here's for the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes,
The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them....
But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.

And while some people see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world......
Are the ones who do.