You
can’t expect someone to change their mind if their core belief is what sustains
their livelihood and community. Max Planck said, “Science advances one funeral
at a time”. Not just science. We live in a world where we define ourselves by
our jobs and our incomes. We spend so much time with the people we work with,
they become our community. Can you really expect someone to ask the really
tough, existential questions, if the true answer would tear down the whole
illusion? If the hard questions will point out the little fellow behind the
green curtain, the emperor waving his bits in the wind, and the man in the high
castle fretting over alternate realities? Our lives, and particularly our
working lives, are too short to wait till the evidence is in. The evidence may
never be in. So we commit. Then we die. It may be up to the next generation to
ask the really hard questions. Which may include creating new communities.
Communities built to ask hard questions.
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