Openmindedness

Openmindedness, you might have guessed by now, is the theme, the catchword of this blog. And openmindedness is a rare thing, a very rare thing, difficult to achieve, not to be taken lightheartedly.

Openmindedness requires that the thinker give fair and honest consideration to all ideas.

It requires that the Christian listens to the Moslem, that the liberal listen to the conservative, that one nation listen to another, that we all listen to each other. We all tend to stake out our intellectual territory, and defend it religiously. By doing this we strictly limit our intellectual territory, we strictly limit ourselves.

Is this the best we can do? Or, is there a better way...

As a left wing liberal socialistic member of the Democratic Party, I used to hate conservatives (not really), and despise convervatism....

This I no longer do..in fact, I would like to nominate myself national chairman of the L.L.A., "Limbaugh Liberals of America".  Thus I embrace polar opposites..how do I accomplish this? Listening regularly to Limbaugh from my left wing perch? With great difficulty, I assure you.With great difficulty..but I do it.

I force  myself to do it. To listen openmindedly to conservatives. It aint easy....I have never met another liberal who does this, and because I do it, I am a pariah within my liberal community...

But it must be done. Openmindedness must prevail on this planet, in order for us to survive...we must change our thinking so we can change our civilization, and perhaps save it from ourselves.