Slag:

I've never seen a better post on the subject; I am only sorry I didn't make your A-list, but I know I have been a bit rough to talk to at times. I know I should do better.

It's not just conversation that gets stopped. We are as a species very prone to reaching conclusions which allow us to ignore whole areas of subject matter. I once wrote several essays on the subject, where I called this "conclusive ignorance"--the kind of conclusion reaching that lets you stop thinking about certain subjects altogether and not need to know. The simple term for it is "idee fixée", the fixed idea.

Finding ways past such things is a real art and worth sharing.


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