People who think they know.

There are people who naturally accept that “there are things in the world that I don’t know.”

• When you feel something is not right, you naturally think, “Isn’t the cause of this discomfort due to something I don’t know?” I naturally think, “Is there something I don’t know that is causing this discomfort?

Some people feel like they “know everything.”

• Once in this state, it becomes difficult to get out.
• That’s because if other people know something that “person X who thinks one knows everything” doesn’t know, they don’t try to point it out to X.

from Nodal Point of Thought 2022-03-11

relevance - problems caused by the elderly (esp. gerontocracy, and elderly people’s control over the young) - Parable of the Black Hole - Humility

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