or,
"past experience vs. paradigms vs. trust"
...
say that one day you meet a man on the street.
the man has a knife.
the man stabs you with the knife.
on another occasion, you meet a new man on the street.
the new man also has a knife.
what would you expect him to do?
should you trust in your experience,
to teach you to be wary of men with knives?
would you form a paradigm in your mind
that each and every man with a knife will always stab you?
how would it change your paradigm
if every single man carried a knife?
would you go through life
fearing every man and every knife in the world?
if all the men with knives have always stabbed you,
how do you navigate through life
to find the one man you could trust?
how would you find the one man
who would use his knife
to protect you from the rest of the world?
