RE: Become your own reference !
Nice quote ! I didn't know it, thanks for the discovery. It perfectly sums up what I tried to say, but I'm no writer. For the first part of your comment, I remember a quote (I couldn't find the source on Google) : "Le premier pas vers l'intelligence est de reconnaître son ignorance." - The first step towards intelligence is to recognize your own ignorance.
I agree with you, studies are there to restrain you from having your own thoughts when it should be the contrary. But it has the advantage, for some people, to sharpen curiosity and learn things about a lot of different subjects. Not making studies isn't synonym of independent thoughts either. Television is there for the people who weren't made for the slave factory (school - studies).
The system has it all figured out, and even in the search of truth, they always put a few seeds to peck for wannabe independent thinkers (let's call them conspiracy theorists) for even controlling the people who think they're evading the Thought Police.
You're most welcome! This particular book, "Eat Pray Love" is for women daydreaming about travelling like me. Therefore, most guys won't notice it. Guys are generally into sci-fi, thriller or extreme adventure genre.
Thank you for the quote in French!
I couldn't agree more with you. The conversation about not conforming is not the same as the conversation about not condoning. Both are separate issues that needs to be tackle differently.
I'm more of a history essays kind of a guy. Allows me to travel in space and time. Pure fiction doesn't attract me (scientific background clinging to me), that's why I found my happiness in reading history, as it's fiction presented as facts. Anyway, I looked at that book, and it's not really for me, but that doesn't take away the fact that her quote was really clever.