Think Thought Thunk

While writing this blog, I am using my right to think. What does your right to think really entitle you to? It can be interpreted in a couple ways ways. You can take it exactly as it sounds. That it entitles you to think, in side your head, any thoughts you want. Or you can go a step further in believing that this allows us to express our thoughts and emotions, to think out loud. I believe in the latter. What good are some thoughts if they are not expressed for others to hear? This point is brought up in Inherit the Wind. In Inherit the Wind, there is the bible and the book of Darwin. The bible has it preacher, but what is there for the book of Darwin? Bert Cates, aka John Scopes. John Scopes in no way was a preacher for the book of Darwin, but he was the closest equivalent at that time! The one who took Darwin's thoughts, that Darwin put on paper, and spoke them aloud. It's a much higher level. To think aloud then to just have the right to think what you want in your head.

Unlike many of my classmates, I can not say that I have not thought about my right to think. I think about it all the time. When someone looks at me funny after I say what I think, my first thought is, "What?!" I'm allowed to think what I want. I know what is inappropriate and what can be hurtful to some people. But other than that I'm allowed to state my thoughts freely. I mean, I could state inappropriate things too if I really wanted to, but I don't. And I do often go into further thought about how your thinking was more limited. Both your internal thinking and your thinking aloud. I think when your outer thinking is limited, your inner thinking becomes the same way because you think, Well I can't say this, so why bother thinking it?

Inherit the Wind also really reminded me of the book The Giver. The Giver was like entirely about the right to choose and also had a lot to do with thinking and knowing. I thought about how the book ended where you got to choose the ending. But to choose you needed to know and even when given information you have to think! This just made me realize that Brady didn't take all the information he could, so he was not thinking to his full extent. By not reading the book of Darwin, Brady lost out on using that information, turned and to his advantage.

This also clearly relates to today. Like Matt said, Students today are asked what they think and they don't want to answer. They don't want to think! When finally, people, like John Scopes, have worked so hard to give us these rights better established and we don't take advantage of that. That I think is really sad. How something that was so restricted before is take for granted now :P

-Anna Purnyn