[extropy-chat] Help! I'm not ready for reality! (was the 7 cents thread)

[Brent Neal]

 (11/18/05 12:30) Jack Parkinson <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com> wrote:

>
>A mind that is resolutely closed to new ideas is already a good way along 
>the road to fossilization.
>If you are not prepared to listen and consider, there's not much left for 
>you to do except to hang onto that belief system and hope that it serves you 
>well.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Jack Parkinson 


Jack,

What you said here needs to be said often (and loudly.)  

I just heard a speaker from CSIRO who discussed some of the characteristics of innovative environments.  He said something much along these lines, covering everything from "aggressive civility" to "utter lack of sacred cows."  Nowhere does the kind of ideological attitudes that are becoming prevalent in modern discourse enter into the path to progress.

B

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