Ideology is an outcropping of uncontained fear, and consists in projectional delusions which create an ersatz stability and knownness in the world. If you are pushing a world out, then the actual world can never actual punch its way back in. You are protected, and your psyche, if not your body, safe from unwanted change.
Ideology is an outcropping of uncontained fear, and consists in projectional delusions which create an ersatz stability and knownness in the world. If you are pushing a world out, then the actual world can never actual punch its way back in. You are protected, and your psyche, if not your body, safe from unwanted change.
What you are describing is an open psyche, which a whole lot of people cannot manage in a world where anxiety is planted continually in every direction, for a variety of reasons, most of them quite indefensible.
But it's what all of us need to learn to cultivate. At root Liberalism is about emotional openness, and anyone who is not open--who subscribes reflexively to banal and usually abusive stereotypes--is not Liberal. Almost no self described "liberals" are any more. Look at Meathead and Hawkeye. They went off track somewhere. I don't know why.
Ideology is an outcropping of uncontained fear, and consists in projectional delusions which create an ersatz stability and knownness in the world. If you are pushing a world out, then the actual world can never actual punch its way back in. You are protected, and your psyche, if not your body, safe from unwanted change.
What you are describing is an open psyche, which a whole lot of people cannot manage in a world where anxiety is planted continually in every direction, for a variety of reasons, most of them quite indefensible.
But it's what all of us need to learn to cultivate. At root Liberalism is about emotional openness, and anyone who is not open--who subscribes reflexively to banal and usually abusive stereotypes--is not Liberal. Almost no self described "liberals" are any more. Look at Meathead and Hawkeye. They went off track somewhere. I don't know why.