EINSTEIN once said that his favorite activity was thinking, and that's believable; he seems to have been pretty good at it. WE all know there are different levels of thought processes; the chaotic, simplistic thought of a toddler, the sublime conceptualizations of einstein.
Low level thinking, high level thinking. Researchers of human intelligence use those terms. A simple illustration would be as follows: count to ten. Then, count to ten in alphabetical order. the second task requires higher level, symbolic, conceptual thinking.
researchers researh everything under the sun; a few of them have concluded that lower level thinking results in political conservatism, while higher level thinking tends towards liberalism.
this need not be construed as an insult to conservatives. the difference beteen high and low level thought is not qualitative, but symbolic and conceptual. you may have noticed that conservatives often accuse liberals of living in a world of theory, and that they do. liberals tend to be more abstract, conservatives more concrete.
conservatives often accuse liberals of emotionally based thought; which means, compassionate thought, based on theory rather than reality. liberals accuse conservatives of being stupid, which is code for low level, concrete thinking, which is not the same thing as stupid.
conservatives embrace concepts like status, hierarchy, authority, tradition. liberals emphasize concepts like rights and tolerance, and, above all, change.
it is easeir to turn a liberal into a conservative than a conservative into a liberal.
the final conclusion? it takes all kinds.
Bb
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