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Jan. 15th, 2011 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionBut beliefs don't form a stable structure, the school of Fish would argue. The ones that already constitute you will feel stablest because close in, and you'll pick among the pool of available connectors for what will least troublingly relate them to your less important beliefs.
But the whole point of education is reducing the number of permitted connections between what you want to believe and what you can (while at the same time giving you many more things to be aware of - hence believe). Comfort is sold for beliefs that don't harm yourself or others, but also for more resources that will help both you and them be happy, useful, fascinated. Obviously I speak of an ideal education, not a typical institutional one, but even the latter tend to provide a lot of this. Religious belief gets weakened, or at least humbled and qualified, while thinking gets clarified, knowledge broadened, skills picked up.
Fishies would say I'm pep-talking myself into re-entering academia. But in general Fishies can go fuck Kanye West.
But the whole point of education is reducing the number of permitted connections between what you want to believe and what you can (while at the same time giving you many more things to be aware of - hence believe). Comfort is sold for beliefs that don't harm yourself or others, but also for more resources that will help both you and them be happy, useful, fascinated. Obviously I speak of an ideal education, not a typical institutional one, but even the latter tend to provide a lot of this. Religious belief gets weakened, or at least humbled and qualified, while thinking gets clarified, knowledge broadened, skills picked up.
Fishies would say I'm pep-talking myself into re-entering academia. But in general Fishies can go fuck Kanye West.
