I'm not clear how fully open a mind any individual can have.

Each of us is always in a particular point in the space/time continuum; each of us is a unique organism; each has an individual life-history, store of memories and knowledge and understanding; is always at a particular point in human history, with a particular native language, in a society at its particular point in its development.

Wouldn't the only way to have a truly open mind be to know everything and be everywhere etc., clearly impossible.

Not for nothing did someone come up with the informal law,

"For every PhD, there's an equal and opposite PhD."

It's always going to happen that each next strong world-view, philosophy, however you want to put it, will be snitched in whole or part by admen, journalists, writers, politicians, carpetbaggers and so , often snitched with lack of understanding, for their own purposes.

No-one knows what will follow post-medernism - isn't that exciting, not knowing !


Re 12 Angry Men and "Let's run it up the flag-pole and see who salutes", said by adman Robert Webber, I thought that was a very funny line.

Ivor