Presets are active, combatant, and not easily contained. The true believer builds their own alleyways that offer no escape. Who are they to play God?
Thus we must loosen our grip on preferences and explore neutrality, never clinging to any belief with absolute conviction.
Parochialism is a blind spot. Shrouded by significance, we deplete the energy to see out other options.
Yet, neutrals see bridges where others see voids. The open remain unstuck, privy to ideas and new knowledge.
The enclosure is already so tight, browbeaten by popular messages. But thinking about the possibility of being neither right nor wrong shifts attention toward a beautiful constraint. Strong opinions loosely held can go a long way to fortify a premium tension. We seek confidence, not a certainty.
As we toggle between abstract and the specific, what we seek is more practical. Rightness already floats around in the head as we compel ourselves to embrace the unconscious.
Openness offers a rare opportunity to climb out of the box, to go one way, then the other. It understands that that’s how some things happen in the world, standing at the edge of possibility.