The Myth Of Consistency
Posted by John on August 21, 2008
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
- Bernard Berenson
It seems often in today’s society, we view someone that changes their mind as fickle. Look at what happened when John Kerry changed his mind on the Iraq war – he was very successfully (memetically speaking) labeled a “flip-flopper”, as if it is somehow a sign of weakness to use new information and recent evidence to reconsider your beliefs.
In my opinion, the surest sign of willful ignorance and close-mindedness is the inability to back up your assertions with evidence. Truly intelligent people MUST question their own assumptions constantly, or they risk losing touch with reality.
