Stop Being Programmed

You’re told what to think from the day you’re born.

Parents, teachers, religion, media, social circles, algorithms - they all hand you opinions, identities, enemies, heroes.

No one sits you down and says:

“This is how you test an idea before you let it inside your head.” Critical thinking isn’t academic. It’s a survival skill...

A few years ago, I campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn, the then leader of the Labour party.

I liked his manifesto. I felt, and still do, that it was exactly what the UK needed. I liked the energy around him. Here was a man who has spent his life campaigning for the marginalised, which spoke to the socialist in me. I liked the idea of someone “for the people” taking on a broken system.