I love the following quote from Peter Block on idealism. As someone whos always leaned toward the idealistic, I really appreciate his response. Well, when you defend idealism, you defend imagination. You defend possibility. You defend the world of ideas. The argument against idealism is the wish to be practical—the wish for an evidence-based world, the wish for proof. Idealism affirms the place of mystery, not knowing, and caring about things that are [immeasurable]. So I always see the argument against idealism as the argument against democracy, the argument against love, the argument against justice and equity, and all the things that our culture has abandoned in the name of privatization and economic well-being. When someone accuses me of being idealistic, I just say, Thank you. I was afraid for a while that I was getting too practical. -Peter Block
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:15:17 +0000
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