Bill D: "Trouble is, "free thinking" ain't really free. Oh, it doesn't cost shillings.. or dollars... but costs time, dedication, honesty, observation, 'openness'...etc,..."

In other words, 'Life'.

Why should anyone relegate their thinking, to someone else, who may have a hidden agenda, that does not serve the purpose of your own well being???
Sure, you might take in the thoughts of others..some of those thoughts may stimulate deeper thoughts or verify something that you may have thought about as a hunch.
Right now, there is a lot of 'political ideas' out there, that some people are pushing. Need you subscribe to any or all of them, without checking them against known facts??..or do you give up rational thought, just to be in sync with the mob?
When you are in the 'creative' process, do you just reiterate that which has been said a bazzilion times, and then 'call' it 'creative'???....or can you reach into the unseen collective consciousness, and define something in a way that is grasped in a new way, that sheds 'new' light on a subject?
Are you content to be herded like cattle(or Robot's 'herd of turtles'), and say NOTHING, as to the direction that the herd is heading..including off a cliff???
Sometimes, just to hold up a thing of 'beauty' is statement in itself..being as 'ugly' seems to be the rule of the day!
Why would anyone be opposed to free thinking?...unless you don't think you can, or your addicted to being programmed??
Ask any ideologue. Most of them are not capable of an original thought...unless it's an excuse, for being called on their horse shit!

Just a thought........
By the way....the most powerful things on the planet, are 'thoughts'..and yet so overlooked!

GfS