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- KVRian
- 874 posts since 28 Nov, 2016
egbert101 wrote: Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:43 pm It make me wonder if only a handful of people are genuinely self-aware enough to have independent thought.
The above comic, courtesy of XKCD, expresses my opinion on that whole gamut of philosophical thought.
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- KVRAF
- 4206 posts since 13 Jun, 2014
See, I can't even express an opinion without someone disagreeing, and someone fawning at that disagreement. Then someone mocks what I said, devaluing anything I say. It's almost like my opinion has some kind of merit of truth to it.
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- KVRian
- 874 posts since 28 Nov, 2016
I'm not mocking what you say. I was trying to explain something using a much pithier way of explaining it than I could come up with, myself: that "it is very easy to assume that no-one else is capable of REALLY having an opinion, when you can't see anyone else's train of thought."
Some people may be more capable of self-reflection than others, but I would think it's a sliding scale and not a binary.
In an un-mocking way, I would like to say that deeming 90% of the world as not "genuinely self-aware enough to have independent thought" seems to me to come near the cusp of a bottomless well of gently dehumanizing, solipsistic thought processes which benefit no-one, not even the ostensibly independent thinkers.
EDIT: either way, I think I probably had better not reply to this thread any more, for my own sake and in the interests of letting it die off.
Some people may be more capable of self-reflection than others, but I would think it's a sliding scale and not a binary.
In an un-mocking way, I would like to say that deeming 90% of the world as not "genuinely self-aware enough to have independent thought" seems to me to come near the cusp of a bottomless well of gently dehumanizing, solipsistic thought processes which benefit no-one, not even the ostensibly independent thinkers.
EDIT: either way, I think I probably had better not reply to this thread any more, for my own sake and in the interests of letting it die off.
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