I said this when we were reading Sexing the Body: "I find myself asking questions about things I thought I already knew." It's this idea of doubt. How much we really know. The more we know, it seems, the less we really know. In the early 20th century physicists thought the field was exhausted, little did they know there were neutrinos and quarks and all sorts of other things floating around in our universe! The idea is doubt.
Why am I bothered by this? I'm not. The thing that intrigues me about doubt is that it makes you wonder. It makes you ask questions. Is this safe for me? Do I really know all sides to this argument? It just makes a person wonder, curious, whatever you want to call it. Some people say curiosity killed the cat, but I don't like cats, so have at it! My point is, that without doubt, people would never be curious. People would never wonder. We might still be eating raw meat and living a nomadic lifestyle if someone didn't doubt that there was a better way to prepare food (There has to be a way to make this food last! This can't be the best way to keep it...).
So, what am I taking away from this? I honestly don't know right now... I may be able to tell you a little while, but I don't know. I can't tell you exactly what doubt makes me do. I see myself, every day, taking a step back to examine what exactly I'm doing/achieving, asking if this is the right thing, if there's a better way, if I should do something differently. That's what doubt means to me: constantly and consistently examining, re-examining, and re-re-examining all aspects of my life and knowledge. That's doubt. That's what we did in this class. That's what I did in this class. And maybe that's the most important thing I can ever have, my doubts.
I felt exactly the same way after reading Sexing The Body. I go through classes sometimes and realize that there are questions that I never knew even existed. It is a bit of an unsettling thought that there are all these extremely important questions out there that I am so ignorant of.
ReplyDeleteI like the importance you placed on doubt. It really does change us. Even when the questioning of a belief or position leads you to keep that belief, you've still learned how to examine it from different angles, how to be critical of your own thinking and you've learned how to strengthen your argument. And when it leads you to a different conclusion, then your whole world has changed. It's this incredible thing that leads us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and our world.
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