The "#illMind of #Hopsin 7 by Hopsin is where we will begin this second part of a series on "#Privilege, #Power, Position, Status and Secrets to Unlocking #DivineIntervention."

"Ill Mind Of Hopsin 7" by Hopsin

Intro/Outro:

It’s us, find power

It’s us, find power

Live life, mind power

It’s us, find power

Live life, mind power

Yo, f*k anybody I might alarm

Life is a tour, I sit and ride along

Taking some notes and then I write the song

I’m staring down the road my life has gone

Is this where I belong?

Is it wrong to not believe in right & wrong?

My mental state is f*ing me up

And I cry the pond while asking you for some answers

But we don’t have that type of bond

That my desires gone with the way that I’ve been living lately

If I died right now, you’d turn the fire on

Sick of this bulls*t, niggas call me a sellout

Cause I hopped on Christianity so strongly then I fell out

Now I’m avoiding questions like a scared dog with his tail down

Feeling so damn humiliated because they looking at me like I’m hellbound

What story should I tell now? I’ll just expose the truth

I'm so close to the f*ing edge, I should be close to you

But who the fuck are You? You never showed the proof

And I’m only f*ing human yo, what am I supposed to do?

There’s way too many different religions with vivid descriptions...."

Hopsin rap suggests that he’s at a place where he is experiencing critical thinking at work. You see, that’s what happen when you begin to expose oneself and think critically, it clashes with beliefs that you had once held because those beliefs came to you as a top-down approach with no ability to question them for yourselves which locks your brain in a particular reality. Until you are able to break free from that. When you are able to, it challenges you to a point of distress and frustration. But that is good, because it means now you are open to tremendous possibilities and the understanding of all things beyond any particular perspectives that were borrowed at best and had monopolized the mind so as to make it complicit and a willing participant in external abuse. That is what we must guard against which is why we should develop the individual so that he can think for him or herself without the possibility of being hijacked. 

As we think about Privilege, Power, Position within the development of human society overtime and the challenges they pose for progress, critical thinking and communication become absolutely necessary because knowledge or the ability to think critically, while having access to information that is decentralized and de-monopolized are key to augmenting the individual so as to avert external manipulation and discrimination. The lecture that I did on Critical thinking at The Jamaica Theological Seminary for the course “Caribbean Thought” sometime ago, is worth sharing as we explore the issue of privilege and power, position and status and this drive to want to regulate information and to create laws about teaching critical history... Certainly, as we think about how to protect against disinformation and manipulative power, while we realize effective communication which is “to make popular what was the monopoly,” critical thinking becomes paramount. When others seek to create laws & policies or regulatory methods, which would suggest that people can’t think for themselves, we are about facilitating learning geared towards augmenting thinking that do the critical thinking that is needed to filter news, narratives & perspectives. More laws and regulations do not necessarily change anything, they more than anything centralize ownership and limit access. Which then create or expand an underground market, that people can still access. Recently, Former President Obama said, “The way I’m going to evaluate any proposal touching on social media & the internet is whether it strengthens or weakens the prospects for healthy, inclusive democracy.” But, what does this mean? Listen to Deon Keeping as well. Https://theneoliberal.com