We must be open to new information at all times even if it threatens our current belief system and hence – identities. Sadly, society today has failed to recognise this and the established institutions continue to paralyse growth by preserving outdated social structures. Simultaneously the population suffers from a fear of change for their conditioning assumes a static identity and challenging ones belief system usually results in insult and apprehension. For being wrong is horrendously associated with failure, when in fact being proven wrong should be celebrated for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.
The fact is there is no such thing as a smart human being, for it is merely a matter of time before their ideas are updated, changed or eradicated. And this tendency to blindly hold on to a belief system, sheltering it from new, possibly transforming information, is nothing less than a form of intellectual materialism.
- - Zeitgeist: Addendum by Peter Joseph, 2008.
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