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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:

"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.

"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.

"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.

"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.

"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.

"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.

"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.

While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
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Friday, September 11, 2009

偏见与无知

偶遇“偏见比无知更可怕”这个句子,被吸引了一下,想了想却又想不通。偏见,不是出自于对反面知识的无知吗?正如我们对刚认识的人很容易有偏见,认识久了却会重新调整对他的评估。又如我们对陌生的外国很容易有偏见,实地居住和生活了过后却会有另一番体会。


如果“偏见”和“无知”在这里指的是“状态”,知少少偏信一方怎么会比全然不知更可怕呢?如果指的是“心态”,即明知自己有偏见仍固执,明知自己无知仍得意,那两者都是同出一辙的不可取。

所以作者究竟想通过这个句子带出什么意义?或许,他想说的是偏见的心态比无知的状态更可怕(尽管偏见就是比全然无知稍微好一点的无知),因为有了偏见的心态,就会永远被狭窄的知识面捆绑;而无知的状态,却可以轻易地用学习和认识去突破。

为何我要大费周章对这个句子抽丝剥茧?因为它不仅仅让我困惑,也有可能隐含着“宁可全然无知,也不要有偏见”的反智想法(作者无心,读者有意)。当不完全对立的两个概念拿来被比较,如真要从其中领会什么,这层含义或许就是仅有的可能。

作者要批判的是心态,而不是状态。因为,正如上述,偏见就是一种无知。知少少,比全然不知好;知多,又比知少少好。从无知到知更多,这是循序渐进无限扩张的过程。人的意识都是主观的,也仅能有限度地处理无限的讯息,所以不可能没有偏见,而只能让偏见逐渐变少,或让偏见靠近中间。至于全然无知,则是根本要不得的。

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