Round 3 Anyone?
posted by Spinfly at 9:53 AM
Monday, May 08, 2006
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conservAtive.
Stacked.
I'm sure when Spin get's time, she'll correct the typo.
Meanwhile, is everybody ready for the cool part?
Ok, now lets look at the two color wheels and imagine that the top one is superomposed over the bottom one. The realm of pure color is in the middle of the bottom "blurred" wheel.
Towards the middle where all the colors blend together to become black at the center is the realm of "ignorance" or "unconsciousness" where people hold positions without really knowing what they're talking about. In a sense, you could call it "blind faith." And people who operate from this position are not particularly effective in either supporting or communicating their position to others.
On the outside of the realm of pure color lie the pastels. This is the space in which curious, interested self actualized people often find themselves. Having payed attention and listened to everyone's point of view, they have come to understand all sides of an issue, and could actually argue from a number of positions on the pure color wheel quite effectively. But for the most part, they don't.
For some, it is a matter of professionalism. I'm thinking particularly of lawyers, journalists, philosophers, scholars, teachers and scientists in this regard. It is their job to examine all sides of issures and to become familiar with a broad range of ideas. When they reach a point of having become fully informed (exhaustive knowledge) on a topic, a curious thing happens. They can no longer be effective in arguing from a single point of view. They know too much. It would be dishonest of them to pretend that they don't understand or have empathy with other peoples point of view. Because they do. These people are sometines called "sophisticated" coming from the word "sophists". They can argue equally well for any side. People tend to distrust sophists. But the word comes from the root "sophia" which means wisdom. Wise people, don't say much. In fact, Socrates, one of the wizest people in western history said something to the effect "...the only thing I know for sure is that I fon't know anything" He also encouraged us to "know thyself."
So there you have it. It stands to reason that the less you know, the less effective you would be. But who would have guessed that likewise the MORE you know the LESS effective you will be. It's a puzzlement.
But there IS a way out.
And THAT's the cool part.
Comments anyone, anyone, anyone, Buehler?
Sidenote: Spinny, before we publish this and revolutionize western political thought, we're probably going to have to spend some time cleaning up my typos, huh?
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