There is a very easy, and indeed even annoying, to appear as a free and critical mind that can not be influenced by anything or anyone stubbornly assert the opposite of what others say. Many of us have had and still have to deal with an aunt, a neighbor, a co-worker with the habit of wanting to distinguish at all times through a direct contradiction to what they happen to listen. Even the most saccharine soap opera, if necessary, becomes a literary masterpiece, a storm with tornadoes and floods is transformed into a light rain fall and the palace of the most devastating urban landscape takes on the value of a masterpiece of modern. The need to take away from other, however, makes them insensitive to the content of their reasoning as to be able to defend with the same enthusiasm but also the opposite opinion. What they care is not having an opinion, but it otherwise.
Yet in exercising their stubborn task of denying what the other person says if they make it fatally employees. Their ambition of autonomy results in a form completely unaware of submission, they can find and to formulate a thought only after someone has given his. They think, so to speak, dictation: the other is to impose their view that that raving self. Like any fear even to submit to the judgments of others produces exactly the opposite of what you want to avoid.
Who deals with the company to publish a series of posts collected under the title In Praise of the opposite must be careful not deserve the criticism that is rightly reserved for those relatives, neighbors and colleagues pledged to follow in the footsteps of Contrary Mary, the character of Modern Dictionary by Alfredo Panzini. It is not difficult go through a harassing caller believed to be the smartest, the sharpest and most independent in the trial of all. In fact, the intent of the various post is not to see winning the sharpness of who writes them with grateful wonder that the reader discovers a truth truer than that familiar to him. Prominent is instead the simple purpose of showing a different side of things as usual. In this sense, the author of the other posts that praise can not be animated by the ambition to replace the current opinions with their own. If the latter are humbly to support already has everything he could aspire. And if any reader is pleased to discover the existence of different truths are not necessarily in conflict with each other, even if you learn to appreciate every truth in its indefiniteness and instability, the writer has also obtained more than what you can usually expect from their partners.
The call to consider the plausibility of the contrary of what is generally considered not true at all its arguments in a form of skepticism that denies the possibility of truth. Arises rather from a love so strong for the truth that can not be denied the pleasure to look in the most diverse and seemingly contradictory. In particular, its constantly changing, the play of perspectives from which it can be considered, remember the magic that surrounds the 'observer of the kaleidoscope. It is not an accurate picture that captures the attention, but be composed and recomposed image ceaselessly always new and always different. In this sense, a blog that pursues the aim of praise to the contrary may not have the ambition to fixate on a choice and offer it as teaching. Yet this does not necessarily have to be a futile exercise as it can not allow itself irrelevant in human existence: each time point, the contingency that we are given, which of the opposite possibility is more valuable at that time and only at that time.
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