Aphorism #24
Mindless open-mindedness is closed-minded.
People often respond to tough, specific, rational, logical, common sense criticism of art not with a refutation of the argument, but with a retaliatory accusation of closed-mindedness.
Open-minded means that you consider something, not that you accept it.
As Lawrence Ferlinghetti said, if you are too open-minded your brains fall out.
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