Friday, November 21, 2008
I heard some wisdom last week that got me thinking: It's more important to listen to people who disagree with you rather than those who do agree.
Those who agree with you will never encourage you to examine the beliefs for correctness/validity; there is little corrective feedback for mistaken ideas. Those who disagree with you will help you illuminate the validity/correctness of things you believe to be true, and help you discard the ideas you hold that fall apart under a different light. Those who disagree with us propel us towards knowledge, or we propel them, incrementally driving each other towards knowledge.
But there's no need to be a dick about it.
Burton MacKenZie www.burtonmackenzie.com
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I read or watched (can't remember which cause it was a while ago) about the "political segregation" of America. More and more people are shopping around neighbourhoods to see what the political views of their neighbours would be, and buying a home where people have similar views.
Living with a group of people with the same views as you tends to make that group push further away from center thinking. Right-wingers thing more right, and left-wingers think more left.
They even looked at how politicians vote based on whether it was a mixed group, or a group of left-wingers or right-wingers. They found the same trend in how they would support bills or policies.
Political segregation leads to extremest thinking.
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