Hi Billy, > I wanted to scream at the TV set, "you idiots, can't you see your own biases? > They are as obvious as the nose on your face." > > All of this in contrast to myself, who, as you are well aware, is someone > with no biases whatsoever.
That’s the rub. If Radical Centrism is going to scale, we need to figure out a system or a process that helps US avoid getting trapped by our biases while we are trying to free people from theirs. I keep thinking of Einstein’s Dictum: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_121993 Too many arguments get stuck at the same level of thinking. We need to break the cycle and get down to the root causes, rather than reacting emotionally in a way that perpetuates (or exacerbates) the thing we are trying to solve. So easy to see in others, like the way Democratic anti-poverty programs trap people in poverty. So hard to see in ourselves... E -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
