Stallybrass Meaning

In Sallybrass’s article “Against Thinking”, he states that “you are not, nor should you be, the origin of your own thoughts (anymore than you are the origin of your own voice)”. To me this means that like we are taught how to speak, we are also taught how and what to think. Without the knowledge that has been passed down to us and the culture with which one has been brought up in one would not be able to form thoughts. This statement means to say that our thoughts are only possible because of the influences and lessons we have learned throughout our lives. This is relevant to writing a research project because the thoughts and facts you state are only possible because of the information that you have read and researched. Without researching a topic, one would not be able to write a paper on it just like without learn what speech is, one would not be able to speak, but instead make incomprehensible noises that no one would understand much like a paper written about a topic that the writer did not research would not make sense.