Two sides of each Coin

Heads and tails, each coin has 2 facets. This has been the reality for ages. When you hold a coin and you see either face, you know that it is only 1 half of the truth as the other side is what makes the coin complete. 

For a coin with identical print on both sides, the value does not drop to half, it loses its entire value.

What if you were never told that? What if never in your life you were shown the 2nd face of the coin? Would you still accept that the opposite side actually holds a different image?

I think it will be difficult to accept. And occasionally or accidently if you witness the other side, someone strongly asks you to not trust it or see it as a mistake, would you have strength to challenge that voice and demand to see and understand the whole coin?

This whole debate might sound useless, even foolish. But I feel that we are living a life where for everything we are forced to see only 1 side of the coin, heads or tails and never allowed to explore the other, or even acknowledge that there is that other side which makes it complete. In recent years with so many choices on media, social media, targeted content, AI to learn your choices; your beliefs and then enhance the push of content to strengthen those beliefs, that invisible something is forcing all of us to believe in 1 side of the coin. Not particularly any side, for me they may tell me a coin is 'heads', and for you they may enforce that a coin is 'tails'. So the 'heads' followers learn to 'know' that the 'tails' talkers are wrong and need to be corrected or removed from the scene to avoid distraction. The 'tails' followers are not taught anything different as well. 

A big question: who are those who want to keep everyone ignorant to maintain this 'heads' vs 'tails' divide? 

A bigger question: Why?

Even bigger than that: What are we, if we are embracing ignorance in the name of safety, convenience or comfort?

Human development has always been based on questioning and exploring, so why are we not questioning and exploring now? Why are we agreeing to be led blindfolded in an unknown direction?

We never lived as a herd, we lived as a society built on values and principles and rules and laws. You can think of a dice in the place of a coin, with many faces, still each one only getting introduced to one face of the dice. If I see 2 then your seeing 4 means some thing wrong with you.

Remember the tale of "The pied piper of Hamelin", where pied piper led the rats to the edge of the cliff and then made them jump to their doom. 

Can we prove to be more enlightened than those Rats?

Try applying this logic to any thing, to your choices, in food, movies, music, politics, religion, literature. Remember, when we flip a coin we chose heads or tails, because we know that both coexist on each coin, making it whole, making it right and never making either face more needed than the other. If you think deeper, the two although opposite to each other, still make the coin whole. Just like I said at the beginning, any coin with same print on both side has no value and is useless.