The mind's ability to alter itself is the source of human freedom. Information expands the capacity of the mind to change. Persuasion limits that capacity. Beliefs must be held lightly, because certainty is frequently the enemy of truth. [Milton Glaser]
Heard Eleanor Wachtel interviewing Milton Glaser on Ideas last night. He said something similar to the quote above. Talked about the function of art being to delight and inform, but not persuade, that the problem of persuasion is that it disempowers the other person. It would be good if somehow I could remember that. My default, it seems, in family and in the church is persuasion.
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