Sure, as you say it is on a continuum. We are all living in an illusions and blind to our own blind spots. As well reality is a relative thing.
But there is enough of a difference between red and blue thinking that I have been an unwavering yellow dog dem for 50 years (home of the liberals). And had I been alive the preceding 50 years I would have been a yellow dog dem then as well.
I don't want a check, I just want to leave a few good ideas after I am gone.
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Having said that...your division seems fairly reasonable if taken with a bit of salt. Actually, I sort of like it. But many people with myth and script have no deficiency of logic in many arenas of thought. They simply add the "myth and script" to their "logic". But there again...it is all on a CONTINUUM, isn't it? Because no-one is completely without bias, without script, or without myth. We are not pure thinkers. We rely on our senses which are all relative, and a huge factory of emotions and memories. You have seen the psychological experiments showing how the same person can "logically" do terrible things when tricked by the feedback of his environment. As Cialdini has pointed out, we are bombarded with information, which forces the great majority of people to make their decisions on generalizations. In fact, we carry so much RAM data around all the time in the anxious part of our mind that we are practically forced to generalize shortcut answers. So even logical people are imperfectly so. Or to put it in a way congruent with your neat phrasing: Even logical people are imperfectly left. <gg>
"If so I want to be remembered for it-lol"
You've entered your copyright to it on SI, so somebody might put it into a book and send you a cheque! |
