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Taido/Blog has been fixed, but not neutered. A few months after I launched Taido/Blog, I had some major problems with the software backend, and it prompted me to confront a personal weakness. In particular, I wrote about the mental “willful ignorance” category of thought of which we all seem to make liberal, if unconscious, use. This is a giant brain database of things we have consciously or unconsciously decided not to bother with learning to understand.
I believe that this is a pervasive habit among humans; it’s prevalent in every culture with which I have any experience. Sometimes, we just decide that things are going to be impossible for us, and then we prove that assumption to ourselves. Here in Japan, it’s especially common; I can’t count the number of times I’ve made a perfectly lucid comment in Japanese, only to be met with the response “eigo wakarimasen (I don’t understand English)”. Apparently any utterance issued by white people is English…
Taido/Blog has been fixed, but not neutered. A few months after I launched Taido/Blog, I had some major problems with the software backend, and it prompted me to confront a personal weakness. In particular, I wrote about the mental “willful ignorance” category of thought of which we all seem to make liberal, if unconscious, use. This is a giant brain database of things we have consciously or unconsciously decided not to bother with learning to understand.
I believe that this is a pervasive habit among humans; it’s prevalent in every culture with which I have any experience. Sometimes, we just decide that things are going to be impossible for us, and then we prove that assumption to ourselves. Here in Japan, it’s especially common; I can’t count the number of times I’ve made a perfectly lucid comment in Japanese, only to be met with the response “eigo wakarimasen (I don’t understand English)”. Apparently any utterance issued by white people is English…
