Dogma Is For Squares

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." - Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

Dogma is a bandaid for uncertainty.

Afraid of death? Proselytize your religion, or your insistence that we just rot in the ground ...

Afraid of being yourself? Pick your party, industry, tribe, identity (businessman, artist, lover of success, hater of money) ...

Worried you have nothing to say? Gather a bunch of facts, get a certification and call yourself an "expert."

None of these things is better than another. There are a million brands of the same insecurity. Almost everybody has their own.

Either we accept that we don't know what the hell we're doing, or we deny, deny, deny, and restrict ourselves through dogma.