As you get older you become aware your views are hardening
and closing off to new ideas. you become aware when you start rolling your eyes
- "thats what the kids think." I believe intellectual quality
just like the quality of every other function is regulated by input. Creating
routine help improve habits and there are ways of breaking out of bad
intellectual habits. Work in coffee shops to be around people of all types and
make it less serious. travel a lot to remind yourself what the rest of the
world is like. take long walks to allow your thoughts to prevent thought
congestion allowing it to spread. go on nature trails to reset your mind to
other elements. dogmatism builds up in the residue of years by act of
homogeneity.
I also fear that such intellectual flexibility becomes a way
of protecting broader and more hidden edifice, its a kind of hidden desperation
or even pessimism embedded in certain type of flexibilities. something to be
said about erecting rigid structure which people do when they are young and
then it could be toppled and people become more flexible, wiser, more willing
to revise. i worry that its deeper dogmatism than erecting dogmatic structure
that could be toppled.
its not the similarity of routine with younger age but the
awareness that come of our susceptibility to dogmatism that alters the
experience and I wonder if such routine could be of much help.
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