[nydel]

i try to remember: "i like liking thing."

this seems to help me avoid intellectual-ier-than-thou attitudes and behaviours. it's simple in its elegance to me:

1) i like to like

2) in order to like something, a manner of understanding is always involved (in maths it's empirical, in watching a magic stage show that fools you it's in a less direct understanding such as 'i understand there's a person attempting to create a sense of awe and wonder even though i do not understand the methodology of the trick')

3) so intention to like -> (as leads to) liking

4) and intellectual humility -> understanding

5) so intellectual humility -> understanding -> liking things

inversely,

intellectual arrogance -> ignorance -> not liking things

i don't want to do that thing. the ignorance and hate thing. it is - at least figuratively and perhaps moving toward literally - the only thing i actively do not like.