I find box-thinkers more and more irritating as I grow older. You know the types -- without empathy, without tact, without the slightest desire towards self-examination. Assured that their own opinions and thoughts are the only proper and correct ones. Things go over their heads. The blinders they wear prevent them from realizing that there is a vast difference between being correct and being right. I suspect only those who don't understand this difference will be confused by my last sentence.
These sorts of people want to try to help you see the right way of things -- their way, of course. You hear them offer you their help and their opinions, which are often unsolicited and even more often rude and condescending. People don't like the implication that they are considered stupid or irresponsible or unable to decide for themselves. As a rule they don't appreciate hearing that their beliefs and their thoughts and feelings have no validity. The amazing thing is that people who do this honestly believe that they are helping. Helping? Alienating would be a more accurate term.
You always hear that ignorance is bliss. Maybe it is. Parts of me envy the black and white world that these people exist in. It must be nice to move through the world feeling confident that your way is so correct that everyone on the planet would live in bliss if only everyone just listened to you.
But you can be correct and still be very wrong.
(Song: Everybody Loves Me Baby" by Don McLean. Lyrics here:
http://www.don-mclean.com/songsearch/viewsong.asp?id=27))
1 comment:
You have to be careful too, cause we're brought up in boxes and once you find your way free from the box, it has a tendency to snap shut again...idk, that sounds kinda cliche. If there was no wrong then there would be no right...right? lol
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