Thursday, January 08, 2009

Trying to change minds?

Not getting what we want ...
It happens very often and it´s more common than we think.
Disappointments always come and go, we can´t simply avoid them. It is frustrating ... yes ... because sometimes, solutions are out of our hands even when we eagerly wanna do something. Does it sound familiar to you?


During the last days, I´ve been thinking about that. How can I change people´s mind? Well ... it is almost impossible and actually this is a very old desire of humankind through history. If we analyze some cases, we conclude that´s fucking hard !! Despite some approaches from peculiar history characters like Hitler, when he and the Nazi party convinced Germans and other European people about the "Final Solution" or maybe Gorvachov about the end of the Cold War from the soviet side, I can assure that brainwashes and "pajasos mentales" just last a moment; this moment can destroy societies and entire countries. Most of the time, these kind of techniques are used for bad things and evil ideologies.

Ok ... this is a little bit odd when talking about changing minds because I just mentioned two examples which regimes were authoritarian ... well, if it didn´t work in these cases, it won´t happen anywhere ... jeje.
I wanna believe that human beings are able to change their own minds but I´m aware that it sounds as an utopia. 

Here is when disappointments come again …

What can we do?
Maybe, we should start with changing our mindsets, trying to understand that “wear other´s shoes” helps from time to time.

I´m not pretending to change your mind …
I´m just inviting you to look for a while from my point of view