Openness, As Currently Conceived, Is

Classical Music Is A Special Taste Like Greek Language Or Pre-columbian Archeology, Not A Common Culture Of Reciprocal Communication And Psychological Shorthand.

To Recognize That Some Of The Things Our Culture Believes Are Not True Imposes On Us The Duty Of Finding Out Which Are True And Which Are Not.

Socrates' Way Of Life Is The Consequence Of His Recognition That We Can Know What It Is That We Do Not Know About The Most Important Things And That We Are By Nature Obliged To Seek That Knowledge.

The Self Must Be A Tense Bow. It Must Struggle With Opposites Rather Than Harmonize Them, Rather Than Turn The Tension Over To The Great Instruments Of Last Manhood The Skilled Bow Unbenders And Jesuits Of Our Days, The Psychiatrists, Who, In The Same Spirit And As Part Of The Same Conspiracy Of Modernity As The Peace Virtuosos, Reduce Conflict.

Plato Says A Multitude Can Never Philosophize And Hence Can Never Recognize The Seriousness Of Philosophy Or Who Really Philosophizes. Attempting To Influence The Multitude Results In Forced Prostitution.