Think for yourself

Question authority

Think for yourself

Question authority

Throughout human history,

as our species has faced

the frightening, terrorizing

fact that we do not know who we are,

or where we are going

in this ocean of chaos,

it has been the authorities,

the political, the religious,

the educational authorities

who attempted to comfort us

by giving us order,

rules, regulations,

informing, forming in our minds

their view of reality.

To think for yourself

you must question authority

and learn how to put yourself

in a state of vulnerable,

open-mindedness,

chaotic, confused,

vulnerability to inform yourself.

Think for yourself.

Question authority.

---Timothy Leary on Sound Bites from the Counter Culture (1989)