RE: How Open Minded Are You? Where Is Your "Crazy" Line In The Sand?
I was just thinking about this post and I remembered this old documentary from Patrick Moore, former president of the British Astronomy Association. It's remarkable that any television company of the time would produce something like this. The premise is pretty simple, Moore goes around talking to people with ideas that are very out of the ordinary. He says he disagrees with most of them, but he is willing to hear them out, and even praises them for having the courage to think outside the box.
After seeing the documentary, I wrote this article, A Free Marketplace of Ideas, about how, in a society which doesn't have a centralised system of education, we should expect that people have wildly different ideas about what the world is and how it works.
I watched the doco, and read your article from 2 years ago (still just as relevant today).
It seems that in a world where ideas (and by association, thought) are sanctioned by the state, that the funnel of acceptable, is getting narrower and narrower. As such, it will eventually clog though, and will once again, overflow from the top into a cascading waterfall of possibilities.
Peace.
Looks like Moore later wrote a book by the same title, "Can you speak Venusian?".