"Most of us have had some experience interacting with religious fundamentalists, and we understand that one of the problems with fundamentalists is that they have no perspective on themselves.
They never recognize that their way of thinking is just one of many other possible ways of thinking, which may be equally useful or good.
On the contrary, they believe their way is the right way, everyone else is wrong; they are in the business of salvation, and they want to help you to see things the right way. They want to help you be saved.
They are totally rigid and totally uninterested in opposing points of view.
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas."
Hello Free Republic. Well, hello everyone, really. It's hard to get a perspective on ourselves, and we never completely succeed, but we can try, no? You don't have to even look at the enviromentalist religion, just check out the fundamentalist heavy metal threads here at FR (Dimebag, Damageplan, Pantera murders come immediately to mind.) Looking above, who here is willing the conventional wisdom fundamentalist idea that 100 million copies of whatever sold equals quality or equals a generally accepted definition of "good"? Subvert the domininat paradigm, dude!