Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Prejudices

Albert Einstein: "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."


4 comments:

  1. I've often thought that artists become artists because some abnormality sets them apart from the masses and allows them to see from a different perspective.

    One of my favorite HG Wells' stories is about a man who ends up in a society where everyone is blind. At first he is seen as a prophet, but gradually the blind people decide he is "seeing things," and they wil have to remove the tumors (his eyes) from his head to return him to normal.

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  2. This Einstein quote made me ponder my life's path. I'm a native Texan, reared in a Goldwater Republican home and churched as a Southern Baptist. At 15, I stopped going to church, and by the time I was 21 I was nearly everything the above-described people despise. I'm almost 51 now, and they still usually hate me, even as they say they will pray for me. Was I doing something right?

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  3. Sounds ok to me, Joe! Could been a description of me, except I'm slightly older.

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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here! (At least put on your socks and pants.)