I had a day off today. This morning, TBH I couldn't have woken up so early that I had to miss the daily English Zoom meeting. After having breakfast, I went to AEON to enjoy the morning activities as usual. Besides reading Yuval Noah Harari's "Nexus", I had been reading a Japanese legendary liberalist Kiyoshi Kiyosawa's diaries "Darkness Diaries [清沢洌『暗黒日記』]", which were written in the Pacific War era (1942-1945). This morning, I enjoyed reading it a little.
In Japanese, there is an interesting word "定見", which means one's certain opinions which can't be changed easily by any other factors. How can I have such "permanent", "firm" opinions even though war or any other emergency event happens? I can't tell you about this, but it seems to me that my certain opinions can have been built and purified by several opportunities to communicate with others. In other words, I need other people to train my opinions. More briefly, I need "you" at first.
As this journal says, my mind can change very rapidly/easily. Even though I guess I can be an autistic, "stubborn", and "old-fashioned" Japanese guy, that sort of "liquid" and "shapeless" idea in my mind always annoys me. However, on the other hand, I can swear that I've always been trying to listen to my hunches murmuring so carefully/dutifully. This means I am never a logical, brainy guy who tends to put the priority of the so-called "logical thinking" upon my physical feelings.
This afternoon, I joined some interesting discussions on Twitter. Even though some users tried to cause anger in me, I tried to stay calm and exchange my opinions with them. After that, I enjoyed reading some essays by Shunsuke Tsurumi (a favorite philosopher of mine) by dinnertime's coming with a relaxed/loose mind in my cozy room. Tsurumi says in one of these essays that how it can be difficult to have an alternative point of view as imagining the "if" situations to gaze their situation from any distant/possible state. I agree with Tsurumi.
Then, how can I have that sort of "if" idea to simulate possible situations to "relativize" my stubborn biases? Also, how can I make my opinions firmer even though other so-called majorities try to criticize me as if I am a heresy?
