Blind Spots: Questioning Our Assumptions is Hard
It is easier to rehearse and ruminate over our stories than it is to question them.
Yesterday, I wrote about Robert Reich calling for Elon Musk to be threatened with arrest. Reich seems blissfully unaware he won't have any rights in a dystopian world where the First Amendment is void.
Why would some push for a dystopia? One glib explanation may be true for some journalists and intellectuals: Invincibly ignorant, they are ideologues who have no regard for reality and professionalism.
Others, we have observed, may thirst for power. They believe they will be declared heroes of the dystopian republic they helped to create, with rights and powers others don’t have.
A more complex and benign explanation is needed for others: Blind spots. They cannot see their blind spots. It is human nature to have stubborn blind spots.
We can recognize blind spots in others. What can we do about our blind spots?
Let’s look at the only blind spots we can do something about—our own.