Process: How We Forgot the 11th Commandment
As a child, I remember hearing this wise saying. For me, it was the single wisest thing which could ever have
been said to anyone and had the power to transform the world for the better. This was the 11th Commandment, a message which those in power have attempted to wash away from the world and keep hidden. It is a secret phrase which, if allowed to exist in the world of men, would restructure the world and
restructure our society as we know it. It has the ability to trump every theory concerning black holes, all of the research concerning the Human Genome Project, and will allow the poorest person on the planet to become the richest and most powerful person the world has ever known.
This is not a polite suggestion, as God does not deal in such matters. No, this is a code of conduct which we
are all to follow. For centuries, entire societies were built around this commandment, and entire empires were forged. However, as the years went on, fewer and fewer were allowed to know this final Commandment, and an aristocracy was developed. It wasn’t until public education was formed that society as a whole made the attempt to right this wrong, reminding students at an extremely early age if they weren’t living up to the 11th commandment through failing grades. Nowadays, most public education systems have eliminated the moral building which comes with teaching the 11th to students, and our society has neglected to imbue the 11th into society at large. Are you ready to know what the 11th Commandment is? Here it goes:
Thou Shalt Not be Stupid.
The only thing that we still have in society that keeps the 11th alive in culture are organizations like colleges, blue collar work, some white collar and various levels of the military. Even still, most of these areas have been
under attack in previous decades, as calling someone out for stupidity is seen as offensive. In most situations, blue collar trades and the military are safe on the lower ends, as one is expected to have thicker skin to be involved in that line of work anyhow. White collar jobs like doctors and lawyers are paramount in following the 11th, as people will either die or lose a lot of money if someone does not know what they are doing. Engineers who are clueless will immediately be pointed out if their building falls down. However, the biggest problem comes from colleges, who either are seen as the bad guys for not following the pauper standards of public education or are babying grown men and women by resuming the process at a higher price tag. This builds the entitlement culture which we see plaguing younger generations today, all built around a society which has done it’s hardest to avoid the 11th at all costs.
How can we fix this? Well, we can start by acknowledging that offensiveness isn’t a bad thing. All offending
someone does is make them uncomfortable. When you are uncomfortable, you learn something new. Even if that is when someone tells you “you’re an idiot,” you’ve uncomfortably learned that someone thought that you’re dumb, and can now adjust accordingly. If enough people make you feel bad about being stupid, that may be God trying to tell you to adjust yourself, that you’re not obeying his commandment in your life. It’ll be impossible to adhere to this commandment, however, if we continue to try to ignore the most powerful law in mankind’s history.