On 8/14/2015 2:11 PM, Kim Jones wrote:
Idiocy only ever applies to other people, yes. It's like sexual perversion and
corruption; these things are done only by others, never by me! Why I speak of the need
for some fabled 'test' - a bit like Alice drinking from the bottle marked 'drink me'.
Alice was no idiot. She had the fundamental human curiosity to "suck it and see" rather
than fall back on some safer, less interactive approach. Perhaps idiots lack the
curiosity to undergo some experience that will doubtlesly undermine their chosen
weltanshauung.
You can call me an idiot if you want but you would be using some other attribution
criteria to the ones I am putting forward. Trouble is, if we ever really decided what
constituted an idiot, there would soon be no more idiots because then we would have it
nailed and could genuinely do something about it. Idiots, however, abound in society. It
is more, as Bruno says, some willful act of denying something absurdly; a kind of
mendacity. Furthermore, I do not consider someone an idiot who does not agree with me.
That's where you have failed to take in the message, Chris. There are always
alternatives, and the inability to take stock of them is where idiots reveal themselves.
Actually, I don't go in search of agreement or disagreement. I prefer exploration and
suspension of judgement.
So you invented a test for idiocy and posted it online. LOL!
Explorers don't judge the terrain they explore; they create a map. I have changed my
views several times over regarding core matters. Actually I find it rather easy to drop
one set of ideas for another. For that reason, no one will ever catch me in the act of
being certain about anything. Even about who the idiots are.
Or your own consistency.
Brent
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