The Changing Mindsets (part 1 of possibly many) through personal experience

Before I begin, let me first clarify that what I am about to pour upon you are some of the thoughts of a young teenager who had barely entered into the Psychological field of study. What I am about to write is based on my own experience and assumptions of what I believe exists in the minds of people. Seeing as I am still young and inexperienced, I highly doubt that I would still keep the same mentality for long. As I progress through life and experience new things, my mentality would constantly change as well, and such is the nature of the human mind. Humans, are indeed, hypocrites by nature. Therefore, do not be alarmed if the ranting you see today contradicts with what you see tomorrow.

Some of you might be thinking, why in the world am I even reading a blog that was written by someone who deoesn't even have a degree or PhD? Actually, you don't really need to have a pretty huge dick (PhD) to understand human nature, because human nature is what we are always experiencing. Studying in a university helps us understand it better from many aspects, but it still doesn't answer all the questions, as some questions are rather ambiguous. We are here to tackle this ambiguity. It doesn't take experiments to prove a theory. We know it ourselves, and as hypocritical people we can always adapt to newer theories that challenge us, because the true answer is never absolute. Too many coincidences, too many events, seem to happen at the same time that causes a particular behaviour, and it would be a lot easier if we stop trying to find an impressive scientific term to describe certain behaviour and just see it as it is, while at the same accept it from different perspectives, coming to a flexible conclusion. Please do not view the words of amateurs with floccinaucinihilipilification, because Australians didn't see how awesome Steve Irwin was until he died, and then only did they regret not supporting him and tried to make a big funeral for him, which was actually too late.

Look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, "am I stubborn"? If you are a teenager, most likely you are, but not to an extent that you would never change your mindset. For example, you probably were taught that caffeine is bad for you. You grew up with that mindset and never touched coffee. Not even when people suggest it to you. But if you're like me, who eventually looked at the benefits of coffee and acquiring a taste for it, you would eventually drink coffee, and even learn to love it. So you are swayed in this manner of persuasion. You may not listen to other people but you can "listen" to articles written by people with permanent head damage (PhD) and adopt it as your profound belief as if it were yours in the first place. Then you become stubborn that coffee is good for health and you start arguing with others who used to have the same mentality as you were before you started drinking coffee. Then the cycle goes around again. That is a classic example of being a hypocrite. But seeing this new behaviour as good or bad is subjective. Scientists would tell you that the reason why teenagers are stubborn or easily swayed is because of their undeveloped frontal lobe which deals with reasoning abilities. Good excuse. Now we can use it as a defence mechanism when our parents start scolding us!

So what is it about hypocrisy? Is it a bad thing? It depeends, really, but through my experience and what I had learned over the years is that hypocrisy has been used as a negative term to describe someone who behaves in such manner. I have been called a hypocrite for the wrong reasons. I used to make fleeting statements when I was younger on another forum about something I disagreed with, and during that time, subjectively my opinion was a bad one. But in the next post, without warning, I changed my mind completely to something better, and some bloke on the other side of the computer yelled at me online, saying that my hypocrisy was getting louder and louder. What I believe is that hypocrisy isn't a bad thing when it is done for the greater good.

Take an example of a guy I met on Youtube. He was once an American racist bastard. Trippin on blacks and pissing on all thing Asian. Ignorant fellow, that old chap. Then he mentioned that since taking a vacation overseas, he had broadened his horizons; seeing these blacks, asians and other ethnics outside of America behaving in a manner which he hadn't expected. They were polite, calm, friendly, unlike the wish wash trash that he had the misfortune to encounter back in his own country. Then his perceptions changed forever, and on Youtube he went on to protest against people who trash talked ethnics who weren't caucasian. So isn't it a mindest that was changed for the better?

Let's look at another example that may be considered as a valid form of proof. Enter Robert Byrd, a senior politicion of the US Senate. He was once a member of a racist group, but eventually changed his mentality and even endorsed the current US President, even giving a long apologetic speech about his previous allegience to the racist group.

What about the opposite? I have been to another forum, and this dude was talking about how he used to protest against racist people. He used to defend black people, until one day he got mugged by the people he was trying to protect, and now he hates these people and loves the racists.

Basically, hypocrisy is merely the change of perception of an individual towards a particular subject or area of interest. The good and bad sides are still subjective, but it is an example of how stubborn people are not unable to change their minds.

Heraclitus once said, "There is nothing permanent except change.The only constant is change.Change is the only constant.Change alone is unchanging. "

I just wrote this in the library, inpromptu, and I don't give a damn about proper writing style. This is what (currently) I think, this is how I think, and if I can think like that, then so can others. My theories may be wrong, but it is what I believe in as of now, and if you have anything to say about that, that's what the comments are for. I'm prepared to be swayed, because I'm a fucking HYPOCRITE =D