Modern Romanticism

“Someone will believe that someone else cannot be prejudiced. Isn’t that to say that this other person is omniscient? Isn’t prejudice just the fear of the unknown, as to know all people, or to be omniscient, would mean to see no differences, and see only similarities?”

Modern Romanticism

Human beings cope with the idea of being open-minded, through being closed-minded or having a gate of trust that is only open for what they know. For what a person knows, they’ll cling to bias. They’ll reinforce their views in the gathering of others who share similar beliefs. This is called confirmation bias. However, all people possess confirmation bias, because it is not possible to be totally open-minded. As human beings are limited on their knowledge of others, and of all people, no one individual is capable of renouncing themselves from their prejudices that would be against what they do not know.

What a person points out as “their people” is no different than differing “their world” from “the world”. “The world” is everything one person knows nothing about. Whereas “their world” is made up of their capacity to retain a limited amount of knowledge. A sole individual is limited by what they are able to do, what they are able to learn, and how much they are able to do and learn. To go with this, learning something new, being based around the unknown, will present to any person a feeling of fear for what they are not comfortable with. Fearing the unknown is the same with prejudice, as it is the same with learning a specific skill, trying a new food, traveling to a foreign country, etc.

Whoever would be incapable of being prejudiced might mean they are willing to admit themselves as omniscient. In being omniscient, they’d realize equal love for all, without fear to what is unknown. On the physiological extent of this, they’d lack a physical heart, lungs, a brain stem, and the entirety of the human nervous system. One person who admits themselves incapable of being prejudiced is not only admitting to being omniscient, though also admitting they are incapable of feeling fear. Being immune to fear would make a person immune to the fear of death, since what might cause a person to fear death and decide mortality as precious is their willingness to take a risk. When a risk is bound by delving into what is unknown, perhaps that is the reason a human being would want to live instead of wanting to die. It might be reason enough to believe that what is unknown takes place on the spectrum of what is yet to be lived, yet to be understood, or yet to be viewed as equal to oneself. There must be more unknowns on the side of life, versus the side of death, deciding there to be a connection between temporary life and limited knowledge. It is a human’s craving for more that signals itself to life, to appetite, and to knowledge. But we are limited, regardless.