Our fraternity is composed of free-thinkers...allegedly.
Why I say allegedly is because it has hard to make out if a group of people are free-thinkers if they think and act the same way. For example, you see a few so-called freemasons from a lodge/jurisdiction that think and act a certain way. When they are asked certain questions, they respond in a similar fashion almost saying the same words verbatim. It gets funnier with bogus/clandestine masons who would always want to throw out "what of if we were on the side of the road" as their defense when challenged about their organizations bogusness.
On further observation, you see that these brothers were trained and taught the same way. During meetings and conventions, they are trained to be quiet as their leaders stand up and make moves on their behalf without them saying a word. Some are convinced that their voices don't matter until they reach a certain unattainable and immeasurable status within the craft. Also you have the bigger fools: the ones who are told by the grand fools to teach the smaller fools. They do everything and anything it takes to do to earn a title or a position. They are trained to suppress whatever free-mind is left within the so-called lower members of the order.
The ability to have free-thinkers within our craft is what makes our fraternity different. The concept of people from different backgrounds and cultures existing within a space were disagreements were possible, but a sense of respect and tolerance in the name of progressing humanity and improving ourselves is the slogan of our fraternity's cause. However, we are not exactly in an age of enlightenment anymore and the concept of one thinking his own thoughts based on facts, research and humanistic morals is out the window since we have so many instruments of control not only by mass media, but our governments. Freemasonry used to be a threat to most governments because of just the very idea of men thinking on their own, but now, governments welcome freemasonry as harmless fancy dressers.
I wish I could say there was a solution to the problem. This would involve already existing free-thinkers to take action, but typically such free-thinkers are silenced. It would involve men to teach their candidates what they should think about now how they should think about it. It would involve candidates with an advanced state of intellectual capacity to deduce, rationalize, analyse, interpret and then apply. That seems to be asking too much of this current generation we live in.
Are there real free-thinkers out there?
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