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%UNINFORMED CRITICISM 761121
Uninformed criticism is characteristic of the
presumptuous people who have eaten of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. They operate in terms of
theoretical/hypothetical knowledge, rather than in terms
of personal experiences and confessions of knowledge
received through personal relationships. Uninformed
criticism is often motivated by fear originating in taboos
which operate without love. Such criticism does not in a
loving way consider individual differences between
relationships and situations, and passes judgement upon
non-conformists, as if conformity was the highest virtue.
The judgement and associated excommunication raise
barriers to future communication, and so via a feed-back
loop occasion future uninformed criticism. The critics
who are uninformed cut themselves off from future
criticism. The critics who are uninformed cut themselves
off from information which might disprove their
theoretical/hypothetical knowledge. As a result they
attend conventions of like-minded experts and authorities,
and listen to each other expound upon theories which have
not been put to any test via personal experiences within a
society dedicated to openness and personal confession
within an emotionally fail-safe context.
Those who presume to be authorities in some area of
human experience should be subject to the test of
familiarity with primary data. Such familiarity is
impossible to those who presume to have the knowledge of
good and evil. Through judgement they cut themselves off
from familiarity with what it means to be fully human.
They live in an ideal world of ideal forms which have no
existential substance or meaning. The relationships
between the ideal forms are relationships of their own
creation---not independent of their hypotheses, and
therefore not a test of the adequacy of their hypotheses.
Citation of revered authorities is not an adequate
substitute for the confessions of people who have in a
personal way put the hypotheses to the test in real
living. For such confessions to be reliable, they must
not be motivated by any desire to prove or disprove the
hypothesis. To avoid bias is very difficult, yet it is
essential to the acceptance of the truth about meaningful
intimate relationships among real people.
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