Blindnesses

In the Socratic style, he led with questions which exposed our "blindnesses" as he called them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Following up on your points: I suspect that people who lack the capacity to engage in critical thinking or reasoned inquiry are equally lacking in the ability to even imagine that other people are different from themselves — different in that said other people are not driven by their viciously ideological blindnesses and childish emotional attachments, but driven rather by logic, principles, evidence and facts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus, the government is not rational or inherently better at sorting appropriate outcomes than the market, and bureaucrats are not immune to the weaknesses and foibles (and blindnesses) of ordinary consumers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Furthermore, if it's a question of a play or an opera or even a novel written in a previous era, I'm willing to cut it all the slack it needs, even when it's misogynist or classist or racist or whatever, because all art reflects the world it's written in, and however much I may deplore the blindnesses of the past, it's wrong to refuse to look at them. ❋ Deliasherman (2010)

But whenever we write our own worlds, in fantasy and scifi more than anywhere else, our own blindnesses and assumptions, innocent as they seem on a personal level, suddenly become matters of magic and politics and games of nations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thus, the government is not rational or inherently better at sorting appropriate outcomes than the market, and bureaucrats are not immune to the weaknesses and foibles and blindnesses of ordinary consumers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think that this self-image of the Leftist is still extremely powerful, and helps to explain a lot of the energy and the blindnesses we can see in each new Leftist bid to make human nature fit their own idealized self-image. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most reviewers, particularly of SF, are white males, and that's deeply limiting, because people from different backgrounds and experiences will better compensate each other's blindnesses and offer a more varied and interesting range of readings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, just as those who believe in the free society must oppose Communism even as they oppose the unjust and oppressive traditions which nurture indifference to individual freedom, so those who believe in the open society must oppose primitivism and substantive multiculturalism even if the bigotries and blindnesses which nurture indifference to civilisation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Thanks for the recs, everybody -- I'm always trying new mystery/crime fiction in an attempt to overcome my weird blindnesses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Let us confess our own blindnesses, our myopias, and above all that which the Bible calls the "great sin" Psalm 18:14: pride. ❋ Papabear (2008)

Sha writes, "Just as imposing our notions of sexuality onto the Greeks leads to blindnesses, so too does insisting that the Greeks were absolutely other." ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just as imposing our notions of sexuality onto the Greeks leads to blindnesses, so too does insisting that the Greeks were absolutely other. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The disease of British socialism with regard to these blindnesses really needs to get cured. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There may be corresponding blindnesses in the opposition as well but this is not a question of math capable of leaving an ethical nil sum. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Two, the most intimate friends in the world, can freely tell each other their faults, and even their crimes, but cannot possibly tell each other of certain little weaknesses; awkwardnesses, and blindnesses of self-love; to authorize that unreserved freedom, the relation between us is absolutely necessary. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Like The Quincunx, The Unburied is narrated by an unreliable, often foolish person--a scholar who spends Christmas with an old school friend--who through his own prejudices and blindnesses misses much that the reader sees. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2005)

Historya word whose journey into English followed the same path as archive, only earlier, and which originally meant inquiryworks like our perceptual apparatus, whose seeing is enabled by our blindnesses, by focussing on one thing or set of things to the exclusion of others. ❋ Unknown (2005)