Stuart Davis to Rational Pundits

"...Rationalists of the World, were you BORN with that World view? Was there ever a time in your life when you were three, or four, or five, when you encountered and interpreted the world differently than you do now? Have you developed at all, or did you pop out of your mother completely possessed of the skeptical capacity to inquire and confirm through direct experience? Of course you developed. You were a pre-rational little bugger long before you became a rational bugger.

Knowing this, are we interested in how other people who are not yet at a Rational world view might develop? Would we like to help them, or do we wanna play to the band forever?

Because the sun will expand and consume the Earth before we convert pre-rational views with rational blather. They can't hear us. No one hears it except those who are already at that altitude, or World view. Well, perhaps a few catch it, the ones ready to enter into it (for reasons that have nothing to do with the rational rhetoric). We had better figure out how to see depth, experience altitudes of awareness, and embrace development, or those lower stations will render us undone.

Rationalists, ask yourself, since you developed through Archaic, Magic, Mythic (all pre-rational World views) up to your Rational World view, is it POSSIBLE there are other World views which are yet deeper, higher, more inclusive than the one you now inhabit?"

Stuart Davis in "Open Letter To Rational Pundits".