Nothing has changed if presumptuousness is still the norm
One of my biggest gripes with modernity is how the proverbial we always think we know better than those who have come before us, and those who specialize in a discipline that "we" aren't a part of.
There's a set I plan on getting and there's a YouTube channel bloke who does these unpacking videos of them, and I glanced at the comments on it, and someone just denied the whole premise of the work, the 4 volume set. Not a big debate ensued besides just some uncomprehending back and forths.
And it is to this sort of thing I make this post about, that we seem to think we know some things, and are really trapped in a mindset that rejects anything different being expressed or put forth, without putting in our unthinking judgment upon it.
What came before such confirmed bias, was it some equally blind teacher or opinion maker that convinced them on this and that point. And they just pass it along, with zero engagement on the issue?
It happens all the time, it's the norm as my title says, and that is my prejudice if that is what it is.
Life may be radically different, I could be just making a mountain out of a molehill, but it does get on my nerves.
It takes boldness and courage to stand up for what you believe in, and in that sense I admire those with strong convictions, who aren't swayed and tremble in the face of ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
For what one believes is their own treasure or burden, what others believe is their own gold or crap. It is those who truly believe that their belief would help others that would engage and go into it all, and that is what resources and a right mindset that is trained can do.
I am an untrained and wishy washy fellow however, there's all these interests I make a big deal out of, and I go from one to the other like it's no big deal, but there's some of those interests that are inherently a bigger deal. Their claims that is, whether one believes or not.
The crux of this is that there is to be a spirit of learning, of acknowledging that some know better than you, or me, i'm always getting my senses blurred in a grammatical way. I was never a keen student on the technical things, if asked what an adverb is, i'd probably describe a noun instead, because words themselves are what occupy my time.
I look up to my sources, I respect countless others who have a right to be published and have their work pored over on endless nights by candlelight, with the heart a glow with gentle warm thankfulness, and it would be my wish that for a moment or 2, while enjoying their expertise I forget what kind of world this is, where some Joe blow off the street can so causally say it's all bunk.
There's a set I plan on getting and there's a YouTube channel bloke who does these unpacking videos of them, and I glanced at the comments on it, and someone just denied the whole premise of the work, the 4 volume set. Not a big debate ensued besides just some uncomprehending back and forths.
And it is to this sort of thing I make this post about, that we seem to think we know some things, and are really trapped in a mindset that rejects anything different being expressed or put forth, without putting in our unthinking judgment upon it.
What came before such confirmed bias, was it some equally blind teacher or opinion maker that convinced them on this and that point. And they just pass it along, with zero engagement on the issue?
It happens all the time, it's the norm as my title says, and that is my prejudice if that is what it is.
Life may be radically different, I could be just making a mountain out of a molehill, but it does get on my nerves.
It takes boldness and courage to stand up for what you believe in, and in that sense I admire those with strong convictions, who aren't swayed and tremble in the face of ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
For what one believes is their own treasure or burden, what others believe is their own gold or crap. It is those who truly believe that their belief would help others that would engage and go into it all, and that is what resources and a right mindset that is trained can do.
I am an untrained and wishy washy fellow however, there's all these interests I make a big deal out of, and I go from one to the other like it's no big deal, but there's some of those interests that are inherently a bigger deal. Their claims that is, whether one believes or not.
The crux of this is that there is to be a spirit of learning, of acknowledging that some know better than you, or me, i'm always getting my senses blurred in a grammatical way. I was never a keen student on the technical things, if asked what an adverb is, i'd probably describe a noun instead, because words themselves are what occupy my time.
I look up to my sources, I respect countless others who have a right to be published and have their work pored over on endless nights by candlelight, with the heart a glow with gentle warm thankfulness, and it would be my wish that for a moment or 2, while enjoying their expertise I forget what kind of world this is, where some Joe blow off the street can so causally say it's all bunk.
46-50, M
