What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind?
My title for this post comes from some wordplay that I created when I was a much younger man. Reflecting on the comment I heard from older adults, I thought that their increasingly negative attitudes towards others could turn out to be as deadly as hardening of the arteries.
Looking at the current state of politics, I guess I was correct.
I’ve also often heard that the older a person gets, the more conservative they become. My time in radical Berkeley altered certain of my perceptions—strengthening progressive tendencies that had already been there—but since that time, I’ve become even more left-leaning. I occasionally describe myself as a socialist, and I don’t see my secular humanist, pro-people, save-the-environment-and-save-the-world stance changing, even on my deathbed. (And frequent readers of this blog may know I have an indulgence signed by the Pope and purchased by my grandmother, so I’m covered anyway.)
I don’t see myself having changed my mind over the years as much as I’ve refined my view on things. If you want to be picayune, yes, I now like blueberries, but for overall approaches to life, nothing has really changed. (Briefly speaking on politics, I once again believe some cultish people I once thought stupid and then only ignorant have proven to me by their unwavering devotion to be considered stupid once again.)
I guess it would take an act of a god to effect any Saul/Paul conversion in me. In the meantime, I’ll forge ahead with my aircraft carrier of views, and likely deflect any attempts to change my mind.
MUSOFYR 