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Thoughtful questions like these, and the thoughtful people who ask them, do indeed lead to truth. My concern is more with intellectual dishonesty and naive, sh

• cglace 6y ago
  An uneducated person doesn’t think of themself as “uneducated”. They view it as having a different set of experiences that has led them to a different truth. A truth that you won’t be able to understand because of all of your “education”.
• Claudus 6y ago
  Spoiler alert, everyone is uneducated. And everyone has naive shallow understanding of the future. There is more knowledge in the world than a single person ever learn.
• themodelplumber 6y ago
  > intellectual dishonesty Unfortunately if one has a mental model for this or that, and that model yields only a perception, that person has _maybe_ half a mental model. That means one can expect little traction and lots of frustration. The effective model will yield energy (instructive, actionable, or otherwise) toward the execution of this or that action or group of actions. Perceptions alone can be really concerning for sure... > naive, shallow understanding I'd say the same here, but add that there's usually a depth in there somewhere. For example, shallow understanding but deep empathy--_therefore_ that person showed up to support your opponent, for example. So can you expect to teach that person, in order to sway them? Probably not. Working the empathy side of things though--this could even be a really fruitful discussion for both sides. Concerning, and frustrating, for sure...still, the journey may be worth the stretching and growing.