'The deepest form of ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.' Wayne W. Dyer
There are lots of things that I know nothing about and refuse to investigate, without experiencing the slightest shame.
But I DID take a brief minute to investigate your boy Wayne W. Dyer.
He’s just another self-important blathering Ed.D. Like Jill Biden.
I wish I had that brief minute back.
“’The deepest form of ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.’ Wayne w. Dyer”
He also said “If all you do is follow the herd, you’ll just be stepping in poop all day.”
In this day of push-of-a-button publishing, it is impossible to read everything someone puts in front of you - even knowing you’ll be called ignorant if you refuse.
If you don’t believe me, just try reading the entire internet in alphabetical order. and then let me know how that works out for you.
A better plan is to filter out the 99.9% that is obviously garbage, and then, of the remainder, use common sense and critical thinking to prioritize what to pursue.
Being older, I do sympathize with your instinct to equate open-mindedness with reading everything.
My grandparents and great uncles were all “well-read” which meant you had studied all of “the classics”, which could fit into a home library, and that you read the NYT and listened to “the news” every evening.
That ethic is no longer plausible - writers now outnumber readers and the fist of publishing and distribution is zero. There there is no longer a vetting process, so we must filter out most of what passes for “information” on one basis or another.
For doing so, we must tolerate being called ‘ignorant’ by people who we filter out.
“’The deepest form of ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.’ Wayne W. Dyer”
What is your point, genius?
I have been following that story closely, so do not need to read another handwringer agnonizing over it.
“To assume is to presume.” ― Jude Morgan