Has The Closing of the American Mind Influenced Your Perspective?

[Energystrom]

I would argue the minds of the masses, American or otherwise, are more closed than open, and have always been so.

This tends to be the implicit in most conversations like this, and it's not too different with Bloom. Bloom's angle is that, previously, the top liberal arts universities used to be bastions of intellectualisms relatively immune to these more common sentiments. He contends that this is not the case anymore, so it's a closing of the part that was open.

 

[Clel Lee II]

As a man thinketh, what man believes is and becomes his truth and being. Being exposed to his internalized self through free thinking. Group hermtic socialism holds free throught back. Polar views are not expected. Is that why religion is so wide spread. Is there a nich for everyone? How can there be if we grow. We must keep learning.If we do that does make us all equal. But it does, because we then are all free to think. To chose our tribe to become again stagnate. Bloom has created a paradoxical thought.

 

[nismaratwork]

As a man thinketh, what man believes is and becomes his truth and being. Being exposed to his internalized self through free thinking. Group hermtic socialism holds free throught back. Polar views are not expected. Is that why religion is so wide spread. Is there a nich for everyone? How can there be if we grow. We must keep learning.If we do that does make us all equal. But it does, because we then are all free to think. To chose our tribe to become again stagnate. Bloom has created a paradoxical thought.

Hmmmm... that's a very... interesting point of view; could you possibly elaborate?