According to Michel Foucault, it should be our own curiosity that enables us to be free from oneself, and not some fantasy formations with bogus promises of liberation from a world of complacency and docility. The challenges that we would be facing in trying to overcome this system would be huge, and to overcome it, one must have courage. Courage is standing your ground against opinions, opinions that are formed by fleeting expressions of hope that the things that we are engaging with today are not just fads. But we can not rely on courage alone, we have to choose what we would like to become. When that opportunity comes, we must take the tide of the educator and the legislator, with education taking years and years, and legislation forming consensus building practices. However, learning about these things should not only be about the assimilation of information so that well have enough of what is proper for us to know. What Foucault wants is that we think for ourselves. We should have a passion for furthering the boundaries of our knowledge. We cannot just be complacent about what we already know, for even if we cannot know everything, we must know what we can for without knowledge the future is in vain. However, we must remember that having knowledge will never be enough, we must also be able to think critically on our own. If not, then we will just become another docile body waiting to be ruled, like a sheep waiting for its shepherd only to be surprised by the very fangs of a hungry wolf. One thing to keep in mind though, when practicing knowledge, is that we must practice what is foreign to us. Doing the same things over and over again not only dulls our ability to think critically, it also puts us in a predicament that makes us prone to becoming unimaginative, stagnating our growth as persons. To be able to reach our full potential, we must explore our own limits and go out of our comfort zones that we have so much treated as if it was a cocoon but in fact it is a coffin that is waiting to be sealed. The same thing applies in how we write our essays, especially for this class. A good example of this would be writing as if we were brawling with what we are writing, rather than just the cut and pasting that forms cookie cutter mindsets among our mentalities. To be able to be fully aware of the conditions on the ground, we must practice the activity of thought, and not just any thought, but critical thinking at its best. We must be able to see differently from what we can see. We must expose our own selves to the apparatuses that empowers us to think in different ways, and to see things in a different light. This is important if we want to stop the cycle of stagnation in our lives, and at least conjure up some surprises for ourselves here and there. With this kind of thinking, we can produce not only for ourselves, but also for others, a wealth of insight. We become original thinkers who steps out of our own skins in order to get away from our stagnated selves. However, right now it is us, the youth, that is considered to be the most conformist people in the world. The first step into breaking this stigma is that we have to overcome our obsession with the self, our idolatrization of ourselves. In order to do this, we must try to ask the right questions, and then the answers to our inquiries will come one way or another.