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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2012
Naive and Mature Idealism
I think of myself as an idealist but not a fool. That's not to say that I'm incapable of foolishness. There have been times when I've been foolish about one thing or another, but the trick is to learn from the mistake and to adjust your thinking without becoming a cynic.
A cynic is a likely former naive idealist, someone whose idealism had been simplistic. Once such a person's idealistic notions about the way he thinks things ought to be is disappointed, he becomes convinced that all idealism is wish fantasy and a refusal to look at reality as it is. Cynicism becomes a new belief system, a new ideology for people who have a hard time dealing with ambiguity and need to have things neat and orderly. Naive idealism and cynicism are the opposite sides of the same coin.
But a mature idealism accepts that evil and delusion are real. But it's not one or the other--one's ideals and the forces in the world that are obstacles for their realization live side by side. A mature idealism is realistic, that's to say it is skeptical, but not cynical. It understands the difference between the counterfeit and the real, and lives in the hope that the possibility for real truth and real goodness and real beauty is there ready to break in if we work to promote hospitable conditions for their appearance in our lives.
Mature idealism has nothing to do with ideology. .......

Naive and Mature Idealism

I think of myself as an idealist but not a fool. That's not to say that I'm incapable of foolishness. There have been times when I've been foolish about one thing or another, but the trick is to learn from...
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