Calling an individual an idiot because he could have acted
so much more wisely is highly satisfying, but I think highly illusory. That
individual is the idiot he is and is probably acting the only way he could
according to the environment he grew in and the context and constraints he
currently finds himself in.
Consciousness-change is a gradual, agonizing process. It
doesn’t just happen. One doesn’t just jump into another state of being. It
happens over centuries. Only after an interval can one compare two points over
time and declare there’s been change.
Our individualist consciousness produces authors and works
of varying natures that in the end say very similar things, just in different
language and built in different logic structures. There are often opposing
arguments, put forth by opposing characters of varying constitutions, but these
opposing arguments can often be collapsed into each other if given the right
explanatory framework.
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