Punch line
Simplistic minds tend to take things on their face value. Which is fine as long as simplicity does not cross the threshold to become plain uninquisitive dumbness. Afterall, it is an idiot who takes what's intentionally provided to him or her repeatedly and never questions.
Some would say there is no harm in taking without questioning as long as the provider's motives are right, or true, or correct. This is where the trouble lies.
What makes something right, or true, or correct is one's own set of learning, experiences or observations. This may not be right, true or correct to someone else.
So how would the right, the true or the correct constitute the 'just' acceptance for our idiot? As any mental institution's inner workings demonstrate, it is, ultimately, the supervisor's discretion which decide what is right, true and correct for a mentally divergent - or an idiot.
One's own diagnosis and prognosis purely on grounds of experience with such complex, and yet not fully understood human nature, are criminal.
Of course, our idiot remains at the mercy of those who 'prescribe' various stuff that's right, or true, or correct for him. And he or she is supposed to accept those - encouraged and endorsed fully by those who practice the same.
Simplistic minds are supposed to accept things without questioning. As spoken, as delivered, as written, as doctrined, as prescribed. It is indeed bliss.
But not everything or everyone speaks plainly. Just because the audience is simplistic, doesn't necessarily mean the deliverer must address to them ideas that may contain complexity.
Some ideas may require a certain degree of pre-schooling, some prior knowledge, like a basic understanding of arithmetic before embarking on theoretical physics.
But what if the audience is as simple as preschoolers, and the ideas that must be delivered, must appear plain and simple and easily understood?
Wouldn't it then be more appropriate for the deliverer to simplify his or message through analogies? Until someone qualifies enough in the future to expound on those? For surely all are mortal and one just cannot hang around forever.
Analogies. The greater the message, the more fantastic the analogy.
Some would say there is no harm in taking without questioning as long as the provider's motives are right, or true, or correct. This is where the trouble lies.
What makes something right, or true, or correct is one's own set of learning, experiences or observations. This may not be right, true or correct to someone else.
So how would the right, the true or the correct constitute the 'just' acceptance for our idiot? As any mental institution's inner workings demonstrate, it is, ultimately, the supervisor's discretion which decide what is right, true and correct for a mentally divergent - or an idiot.
One's own diagnosis and prognosis purely on grounds of experience with such complex, and yet not fully understood human nature, are criminal.
Of course, our idiot remains at the mercy of those who 'prescribe' various stuff that's right, or true, or correct for him. And he or she is supposed to accept those - encouraged and endorsed fully by those who practice the same.
Simplistic minds are supposed to accept things without questioning. As spoken, as delivered, as written, as doctrined, as prescribed. It is indeed bliss.
But not everything or everyone speaks plainly. Just because the audience is simplistic, doesn't necessarily mean the deliverer must address to them ideas that may contain complexity.
Some ideas may require a certain degree of pre-schooling, some prior knowledge, like a basic understanding of arithmetic before embarking on theoretical physics.
But what if the audience is as simple as preschoolers, and the ideas that must be delivered, must appear plain and simple and easily understood?
Wouldn't it then be more appropriate for the deliverer to simplify his or message through analogies? Until someone qualifies enough in the future to expound on those? For surely all are mortal and one just cannot hang around forever.
Analogies. The greater the message, the more fantastic the analogy.
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