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Monday, September 12, 2011

Thinking Outside the Box: In Praise of Dead Liberals « beeryblog

Thinking Outside the Box: In Praise of Dead Liberals « beeryblog

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RAYLOKESeptember 12, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Consider the myth of Siddharta and how as a young man he lived in the confines of his father’s kingdom. Inside the castle walls was a known world, a safe world. But as such it was also a stifled world filled with convenient, unprovable answers to life’s most burning questions. When Siddharta left his father’s kingdom he would discover a new world, and he also would come to realize the depths of himself and the human mind and spirit. This couldn’t have occurred had he not stepped outside the box.
To define something is to limit it
The box is the area that is defined. But to define something is to limit it. The chief obstacle to freedom is fear.
The greatest progress made throughout history has been by those brave souls who venture outside the box. They are intellectually curious. A good many are reviled during their lifetimes only to be praised in retrospect. Many are the victims of revisionism. And most ironically, the followers of these visionaries tend to be the most in-the-box people the world has ever known.
Jesus is such an example. He was a Jew, a Middle Easterner, a dark-skinned man and a liberal-minded rebel at heart. Today, many of his most ardent followers are antisemitic, anti-Middle Eastern, anti-dark skin and anti-liberal. In fact, the World War II era proved this to the extreme.
Hypatia the Philosopher
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