I don’t even know enough to know what I don’t know
yet this uncertainty is oddly comforting (Bronk style). Extreme skepticism
is itself a form of dogmatism, equally perilous, so that’s not it
either, more like a technique of not attaching oneself too hard to
one’s own beliefs, one’s “likes and dislikes,” to quote Wallace
Stevens. I’ve learned that from Zen, of which I am not too
serious a practitioner: I lack that element of giving myself
over to a system of thought, even one that leads to a mind of
unknowing. Still, that is the closest set of “beliefs” for my own particular
temperament. What more is there to say?
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