Context is EVERYTHING! Perspective is EVERYTHING! Frame of reference is EVERYTHING! Relativism is EVERYTHING! And do you know what isn’t “everything”? Absolutism. Ignorant certainty. Arbitrariness. Cocksureness. Flexibility is key to living a happy and successful life, while rigidity predisposes the opposite outcome. And yet even as I go to great lengths to emphasize this seminal lesson, there is and will always remain a shocking percentage of the general population who will never understand this simple message, let alone live by its creed. They don’t understand and, what’s worse, they don’t give a shit about being mordantly ignorant either.
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