Of Realization

I've been talking once with a friend of mine how we don't realize things.
We know things, but we don't realize them. We don't always get their full meaning.
Maybe we get insensitive to things until they punch us in the face (or maybe we get insensitive because of the punches, dunno). Maybe we have to trigger our intensity in order to let things touch us. It's something risky. That world outside is a powerful motherfucker.

I think it's fit to talk here about another thing I've been realizing.
We live by shallow realizations. We have a shallow grasp of the things that circle us. We have a shallow grasp of what prejudice means, for example. We only think about the most superficial aspect of it. And that's why some people fool themselves into saying don't have prejudicial thoughts. Prejudice is much more than calling a black person a nigger. You are displaying prejudice by every conclusioning and quick assumptions you make about everything.
I'm with those people who go all "I'm soo against reading e-books because you have to touch the paper to experience reading". But I know that's sheer prejudice. You know, that's displaying the same logic that homophobics use. All that "It's not how I like the world. It's not how the world should be".

And the moment you realize what it means, for example, to do what they tell you (as they say them sheepy people do, like they are all amazingly stupid people who follow explicit orders like "I want you in the US Army") and you realize how it can mean always being tricked into following trends and biased opinions, even the most underground ones, you understand how we have always been as sheepy as the next person.

Some people will find this all just too obvious because they didn't realize the importance of it.
But I hope that being more of a Realizer can shrink our intolerance towards others.