P.N.S. Continued
All right, I don't know if this technically falls under the concept of P.N.S, but until someone tells me otherwise I'm sticking with it.
The second part of P.N.S, which I neglected to mention yesterday, is an easily persuadable nature. In other words, everything you hear sounds right when you hear it. This is not true for all things, but it is true for those where your own mind is not completely made up, especially if you are inherently open-minded and willing to listen to what other people have to say. What this means is that during discussions of serious topics, you feel like you don't have a leg to stand on, because you don't know what that leg would be. You may have a general idea of what you thought before the discussion, but once you listen to what the other person has to say, assuming it's at all rational and well-thought out, you start to lean towards that person's opinion, and until you hear from another side start to trust that that first person is right.
Fortunately, this is generally only true for those things which, while often sounding important, have no direct bearing on one's daily life. For example, whether or not there is a God, what happens to us when we die, the best form of education, and so on. But while these subjects may not be crucial in planning tomorrow's agenda, they do serve to lessen your faith in your own integrity for knowing that you're so easily persuaded that you can't say anything without second guessing yourself into thinking you might be wrong. Which isn't a great feeling.
And that's all there really is to that. While I do think this is something that P.N.S.ers need to be aware of, most people have some subject where they're sure of their stance that it ends up not really being all that big a deal. Which, of course, seems to defeat any sense of purpose this entry may have once had, aside from a further explanation of another aspect of Perpetual Naivety Syndrome.
I hope you've found it enlightening.
The second part of P.N.S, which I neglected to mention yesterday, is an easily persuadable nature. In other words, everything you hear sounds right when you hear it. This is not true for all things, but it is true for those where your own mind is not completely made up, especially if you are inherently open-minded and willing to listen to what other people have to say. What this means is that during discussions of serious topics, you feel like you don't have a leg to stand on, because you don't know what that leg would be. You may have a general idea of what you thought before the discussion, but once you listen to what the other person has to say, assuming it's at all rational and well-thought out, you start to lean towards that person's opinion, and until you hear from another side start to trust that that first person is right.
Fortunately, this is generally only true for those things which, while often sounding important, have no direct bearing on one's daily life. For example, whether or not there is a God, what happens to us when we die, the best form of education, and so on. But while these subjects may not be crucial in planning tomorrow's agenda, they do serve to lessen your faith in your own integrity for knowing that you're so easily persuaded that you can't say anything without second guessing yourself into thinking you might be wrong. Which isn't a great feeling.
And that's all there really is to that. While I do think this is something that P.N.S.ers need to be aware of, most people have some subject where they're sure of their stance that it ends up not really being all that big a deal. Which, of course, seems to defeat any sense of purpose this entry may have once had, aside from a further explanation of another aspect of Perpetual Naivety Syndrome.
I hope you've found it enlightening.
posted by Gabe at 11:40 PM
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