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Subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and website. Never miss an update. In this case, “update” means detail in any of the lines of investigation and research I’m conducting, funding, filming, or consulting for. There are many sources and choices for information, and I respect this greatly. I was born in a Communist country and know what the lack of choice means. It has a restricting effect on not just one person’s view, but on the entire consensus reality that forms a society’s system of vision.
One antidote to this constriction, many people feel, is found in the idea of entertaining diverse or opposing points of view, especially in regard to information media (such as news outlets and educational venues). Let’s call this the Equal Time Doctrine (call it ETD), and we all have some intuitive sense that this is the most fair way to counter ignorance.
Unfortunately, ETD is no longer a valid practice in many free societies. Here in the U.S., for example, people’s interests are not only becoming fixed around one political viewpoint, but worse, they see the other side as delusional. Diversity of view has disappeared, and been replaced by an aggressive rigidity that is entirely against the inclusive, liberal spirit of every free society model. I see no immediate corrective to the erosion of ETD, but it has come with a second social sin: the proportional deterioration of social behavior.
Another antidote, much older than ETD, is to counter ignorance from many perspectives at once. Since in general the problem is the gradual constriction of view, it should be called cultural glaucoma, and by learning all you can in as many fields as you can, your horizons are widened and deepened, and you become the conductor in the orchestra of sensory experience that comprises your temporal passage through life.
That’s what I offer - the Renaissance perspective.
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