{"id":14118,"date":"2018-02-05T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14118"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:30:18","slug":"the-frustration-of-the-closed-mind-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/05\/the-frustration-of-the-closed-mind-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frustration Of The Closed Mind, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers react to my meditations on piercing closed minds<\/a> – wherever they’re located:<\/p>\n

Interesting.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never thought about it this way. Guess I\u2019ve never really given it much thought.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another:<\/p>\n

Yes, tribalism is wrong and is destroying our country. I don’t see any way to stop the USA from becoming a has-been nation.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My suspicion is that we’re in for a dip, but once enough of us have been banged on the head with the tangible consequences of bad thinking, our advantage in natural resources and a free(er) society will help us move back towards the front.<\/p>\n

Unless the Chinese lead in artificial intelligence gives them a multiplier effect.<\/p>\n

Another, from old friend Kevin McLeod:<\/p>\n

Good article by Sullivan. Yes, tribalism is hurting us. I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s wrong per se – it has value in some situations – but in our current context it\u2019s creating more problems than it solves. It\u2019s good to see growing awareness of the central issue.<\/p>\n

I wrote about the same topic in December at Medium: https:\/\/medium.com\/…\/the-bug-in-human-social…<\/a><\/p>\n

Keep this subject in circulation. It\u2019s a particularly difficult problem to solve because it\u2019s instinctual or nearly so. Shedding outdated social fictions would be a good start.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A good article. I had forgotten about the Emperor’s New Clothes tale, it puts all the arguments about tribalism into one memorable & instructive story, applicable to the entire world of Trump politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers react to my meditations on piercing closed minds – wherever they’re located: Interesting.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never thought about it this way. Guess I\u2019ve never really given it much thought. Another: Yes, tribalism is wrong and is destroying our country. I don’t see any way to stop the USA from becoming \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14120,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}