The direction we are headed: Within another generation or so, most people being born will be a beautiful coffee color. Eventually racism will become a thing of the distant past, with our descendants wondering why there was such a big deal made about skin color (and sexual orientation) way back in the "old days." The Tea Party's ideology will be studied in history classes as the model of ignorance and bigotry, and everyone will be stunned that people could ever have thought that way. Most of today's old white men's beliefs will have died out with the old white men, making way for a more open-minded society that welcomes new ideas, instead of automatically opposing them (like today's "we don't want no new things around here" Republicans).
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 – 1860)
'First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.'
--Mahatma Gandhi
--Mahatma Gandhi
There is a principle which is proof against all information, which is proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance; that principle is contempt, prior to investigation. --Herbert Spencer
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
--John Locke, 1690, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment