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Nov. 26th, 2008 02:10 pm"Extroverts, in my experience, often seem to find the preferences or even the existence of introverts incomprehensible, whereas introverts seldom find extroverts similarly baffling. (Just annoying. I kid, I kid. Mostly.) We don’t have inherently greater insight; it’s just that introverts don’t reside in an environment where most people are like them and the media and popular culture continuously and reflexively treats their nature and preferences as normative."
"it’s much harder to imagine everyone who disagrees with you as a monstrous devil when you’re surrounded by and interacting with those people all the time."
- John Markley
This pattern occurs not just between extroverts and introverts, but everywhere where one group's belief system is so dominant that it comes to be considered "normal".
The mindset that I am most opposed to could be called "conventionalism", i.e. the assumption that conventional wisdom is largely true, even if some parts of it may be inaccurate.
In my experience, generally, conventional wisdom, whatever it happens to be within a social context, tends to be wildly off the mark or at best irrelevant. This is in large part because it is never seriously challenged, and thus never evolves to conform to reality. Instead, our perceptions of reality get bent to fit "common sense" or "conventional wisdom". This is why we're constantly being surprised when reality pulls vastly away from our unrealistic expectations, as in this "financial meltdown" or whatever they're calling it right now.
"it’s much harder to imagine everyone who disagrees with you as a monstrous devil when you’re surrounded by and interacting with those people all the time."
- John Markley
This pattern occurs not just between extroverts and introverts, but everywhere where one group's belief system is so dominant that it comes to be considered "normal".
The mindset that I am most opposed to could be called "conventionalism", i.e. the assumption that conventional wisdom is largely true, even if some parts of it may be inaccurate.
In my experience, generally, conventional wisdom, whatever it happens to be within a social context, tends to be wildly off the mark or at best irrelevant. This is in large part because it is never seriously challenged, and thus never evolves to conform to reality. Instead, our perceptions of reality get bent to fit "common sense" or "conventional wisdom". This is why we're constantly being surprised when reality pulls vastly away from our unrealistic expectations, as in this "financial meltdown" or whatever they're calling it right now.