Walter Lippmann, stereotypes

‚What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truths from its errors. For that power comes only by realizing that no human opinion, whatever its supposed origin, is too exalted for the test of evidence, that every opinion is only somebody’s opinion. And if you ask why the test of evidence is preferable to any other, there is no answer unless you are willing to use the test in order to test it.‘

walter lippmann, brainpickings

note:
he talks on stereotypes..,
there is this other class of stereotypes,
adult rebels, often half-educated or over-educated,
they hold for truth all what is to be called special, out of
the existing normative culture, esoteric,
they behave like youths in puberty, all seen as normal
is boring and bad and all else is true...nearly everybody
can so be stamped with ‘all the same’, ‘just this’,
a source for inhuman indifference-and ignorance.
the value of special is zero.

Buddha was not special, he gained enlightenment
giving his awareness to all, even the smallest being.
his aim was to look for a way out of suffering, not for
not being reborn. in fact, Siddharta didn’t stay in
Nirvana but took rebirth in the moment for all of us.
whatever Nirvana means.

we must be humble.
to see stereotypes is important but does not elevate
one  human being above the other.
to find the singularity in the stereotype
with loving presence sounds more rewarding to
me.