Q&A: A Question Without an Argument
A Question Without an Argument
Question
Hello Rabbi, I’d like to ask an intuitive question without a specific argument behind it (as is well known, you don’t dismiss intuitions).
In the eyes of most readers here, you were always the creative thinker whose view on a given issue no one could predict in advance, because you aren’t rigid.
Lately (maybe since the publication of the trilogy, though I’m not sure),
I have the feeling that that’s it—you’ve become fixed. Your ideas are known and clear, your thoughts are predictable to someone who knows you, and the element of thinking through each thing, rather than thinking on autopilot as before—all that has disappeared.
Is that really so? And am I the only one who feels this way?
Thank you in advance
Answer
Well then, you can surely guess what I’d answer to this very question. So why ask me?
As for the matter itself: if you can manage to guess in advance what I’ll answer about everything, it may simply be that I’m consistent, and after reading me for long enough you’ve internalized my way of thinking, so you know what I’ll say. I don’t see any problem with that. In short, you’re attributing the rigidity to me, but it’s possible that actually it’s you.
Of course, it’s also possible that you’re right. But I’m too rigid to notice it.