Thursday, July 22, 2010

Method

"The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea."

- Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior.


Although the words revisionism and revisionist may garner suspicion because of their association with certain unquestionable enterprises such as 9/11, so-called global warming, chemtrails, holocaust, etc., I take revision to be a fundamental tenet of human cognitive ability. Whether or not the revisionist approach is preferable to the popular 'opinion' can only be assessed on a case-by-case basis, and only by manner of intellectual honesty combined with extensive investigative research.

But if further analysis is either thwarted, delayed, or obfuscated in any other way, cognitive function is limited in direct proportion to the limitation of accessible information. The method here utilized is committed to developing structures that include as much information as possible in a coherent and unified perspective. In seeking the broadest base of data available, no datum can be omitted. No matter the source, a consideration to be taken into account at a later time, all information that can be categorically ascertained ought to be correctly organized as best as possible. If any connections need to be reformatted this paradigm not only recognizes new interpretations but whole-heartedly encourages them.

Whether this task is a self-defeating or self-reinforcing principle is up for the interpreter to decide. For me this is intellectual honesty and human integrity, the definition of open-mindedness. Constantly seeking new information to corroborate and refute old ideas is the outlook of a healthy skeptic, willing to evolve consciousness internally and externally.

This is my method: constantly pursue novel developments in my inner and outer experiences to contribute an evolving and conscious perspective to my peers.

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