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  #1 Joe Bennett on 29 Jan 15

   

  Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. ...I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of, is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will too. (David Foster Wallace, Kenyon Commencement Address, May 21, 2005)

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up. ...I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of, is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will too. (David Foster Wallace, Kenyon Commencement Address, May 21, 2005)</div>

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