November 24, 2010

I'll Tell You What You Need To Know



"No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true."

Samuel Johnson
18th century British author

If taken literally, wouldn't this result in only more of what we know or believe we know, with little or no innovation?

In both my personal and business lives, I want to hear every opinion possible no matter how contrary to what I think.

I can discard the useless and will certainly recognize and coop the useful.
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  1. CoyoteNovember 24, 2010 at 3:12 PM

    Restrictive thought societies are common to communist economic systems but no more so than was true in Nazi Germany.

    Go ask tea partiers and extreme socialists, neither of which represent the ultra extreme of right and left thought, to consider each others viewpoints, and see how far you get.

    Intolerance to alternative opinions is not the provenance of any economic system, just simple ignorance.

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  2. BillyWarholNovember 24, 2010 at 9:09 PM

    yeah it's gotten sickening Bill sigh.....

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