I feel there’s also the opposite failure mode, of trying to preserve the nonexistent purity of your mind. Taking it to the extreme would mean never hitting puberty, never developing interests, never dwelling on arguments and explanations, never joining communities, never experiencing love, etc.
I enjoyed the blogpost, but it didn’t try to critically analyze the main question—“how should you (not) avoid your mind being influenced?”
Also, sometimes engaging with something can help you disbelieve it. I fell into a rabbit hole of true crime mysteries (e.g. the Dyatlov Pass incident, Yuba County Five, etc.), but came out feeling like the world is significantly less mysterious than I thought. “Even if everything is explainable, an unexplainable-looking situation is bound to happen at some moment?”, but after watching the videos and googling possible explanations it felt like even unexplainable-looking situations don’t exist.
I feel there’s also the opposite failure mode, of trying to preserve the nonexistent purity of your mind. Taking it to the extreme would mean never hitting puberty, never developing interests, never dwelling on arguments and explanations, never joining communities, never experiencing love, etc.
I enjoyed the blogpost, but it didn’t try to critically analyze the main question—“how should you (not) avoid your mind being influenced?”
Also, sometimes engaging with something can help you disbelieve it. I fell into a rabbit hole of true crime mysteries (e.g. the Dyatlov Pass incident, Yuba County Five, etc.), but came out feeling like the world is significantly less mysterious than I thought. “Even if everything is explainable, an unexplainable-looking situation is bound to happen at some moment?”, but after watching the videos and googling possible explanations it felt like even unexplainable-looking situations don’t exist.