It comes to me after all these years after a life time of watching people interact, labeling oneself may close the shutters to in-coming information.
It seems that is why is can be so hard to discuss religion and politics. The dialog, the interactions, the communication is really not about the subject. Rather people are defending their identities.
The only person I can think of at the moment who listened and experienced new information unhindered by his current identity; and then drastically made a change in his life was Malcolm X.
There may be others, but its not coming to mind at this moment.
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