A good way of ridding yourself of certain kinds of dogmatism is to become aware of opinions held in social circles different from your own.(63) When I was young.I lived much outside my own country-in France,Germany,Italy and the United States .I found this very profitable in diminishing the intensity of insular prejudice.(64) If you cannot travel,seek out people with whom you disagree,and read a newspaper belonging to a party that is not yours.
If the people and the newspaper seem mad,perverse,and wicked,remind yourself that you seem so to them.In this opinion both parties may be right,but they cannot both be wrong.This reflection should generate a certain caution.
(65) For those who have enough psychological imagination,it is a good plan to imaginean argument with a person having a different bias .This has one advantage,and only one,as compared with actual conversation with opponents;(66) this one advantage is that the method is not subject to the same limitations of time or space .Mahatma Gandhi deplores railways and steamboats and machinery;he would like to undo the whole of the industrial revolution.(67) You may never have an opportunity of actually meeting any one who holds this opinion,because in Western countries most people take the advantage of modern technique forgranted .
(From How to Avoid the Foolish Opinions)
63.我年轻时曾长时间生活在国外——在法国、德国、意大利和美国都住过。
64.如果你没有机会旅行，可以找些和你见解相左的人交流，读一读你所属政党以外的其它党派的报纸。
65.对于那些具有足够心理想象力的人而言，想象与一个和自己意见不同的人进行辩论也是一个好主意。
66.这个唯一的优势就是这种方法不易受相同时空限制的影响。
67.你可能不会有机会真正遇到持这种观点的人，因为在西方国家大多数人把现代技术的优势看作是理所当然。
