Being open minded means being open to unsafe things. Extreme open-mindedness is quote stupid.
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Flexibility is almost by definition the opposite of safety. The safest thing is to do nothing. What most people talk about when they discuss flexibility is actually configuration, it’s various permitations and such.
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No one is truly close minded since they’re always doing at least something. Just safer by their calculations.
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Weird result: Smartness is by definition the opposite of open-mindedness.
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What society means by smart is usually “ability to think things through, covering all cases, predicting the future precisely.”
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This a minimizing of states, by nature it’s close minded. “Smartness” as commonly used is the ability to serve closed systems by making them robust.
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Machines see and applaud other machines. Open mindedness actually throws a wrench into the perfect system.
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Yet this combination of open and close mindedness is the true gift. The machine chokes on the chaos but actually adapts and grows instead. It’s antifragile, the machine is Alive.
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Their balance is important. Being close minded is important. Being able to control open and closed is even more important.
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Nowadays we see being open minded as infinitely good. But as our connected world shows us, there are some connections that can be prematurely made.
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as a reaction to previous years of close mindedness, this balance is magical. But unchecked, it is cancerous.
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Open mindedness is always future facing. It’s looking for rapid change and rapid growth. More life and more mutations.
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Cancer is just paranoid life, not realizing how much abundance it already has. Because it can’t bring itself to identify with its world. It feels an outsider. It feels lost.
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This is why the warm embrace of cold machinery and calculated thoughts is important. It provides meaning and purpose. Everything is accounted for. Everything has its place.
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Cancer is “I don’t belong here, this isn‘t my home.” The cells of the body rebels, trying to making cooies of itself. Trying to escape. Taking all it can gather with it.
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It is tempting to blame the cells. But it’s also good to ask why the home was so terrible that the cells couldn’t call it home? What was so bad that the cancer intuitively knew: “this isn’t home, this isn’t love”
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Cancer cannot win. In its paranoia it destroys its own home. The more you reject it as an outsider the more desperate it is to grow.
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The only way to beat cancer is love and understand it enough that it wants to come back home.
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If you feel things are going out of control, try loosening up a bit. Be a little more flexible. You might be surprised at what happens.
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The kids come home at last. The future light returns to thank the present fading into the past. Time stops in the perfect eternal Now.
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