Thoughts about the mind

I used to believe that people were simple. I imagined the world through another person's mind. I could not fathom a world where a majority of someones thoughts were about sports, or television shows. But I know now that on Earth there doesn't exist one simple mind. Their may be uneducated minds, and some minds sharpened to a razor's edge. Most people make a conscious effort to appear in the world the way that they do. They don't just shamble around like a zombie, and then go someplace. Every person has ideas, problems, issues that they compete with on a daily basis. If we ever discount a single person we have thrown away everything that we know to be true about ourselves and humans in general. We may not always make rational decisions, but the decisions we make have a reason. Is a mind trained in higher level mathematics, different from a mind subjected to animalistic thought? The way an artist chooses what technique or color to use, a human chooses what they want to think about. What we think about is a choice that we make. We may think about something for an instant or for many years, but the choice to think about an idea is the choice we get. All we get to interpret our world is chemical reactions, and the best biological processing unit money can't buy. Our bodies are merely a way for our brains to interface with the world. I wondered how people could be so shallow with their thought, not testing or even trying to make themselves better at an academic pursuit. People don't enjoy thinking because it is difficult, it takes time. The enjoyment we receive from shallow entertainment is instantaneous. A direct shot of adrenaline to the animal part of our brain. Movement, flash, competition, simplicity. This is what the people want. This stuff is what "life" is made of. There are those of us, who enjoy a challenge of mental ability. Both laughing at the man who gets his balls kicked. But also laughing at the witty comment he says afterward. We solve problems, we create problems. We see the world as humanity vs. humanity, and we want both teams to survive. I have decided to split up the world into those people who enjoy thinking for themselves, and those who don't. It's the precise reason I despise mass religion. Who are you to tell me how the bible is "supposed" to be read? Hopefully as we move into the future, people will realize that the hero's of our society are the people who enjoy solving problems. The other people are the people we look to to distract us from those problems.