He had a simple view of what shapes the conservative or liberal view.  It is in the use of one’s mind.  In one, the mind is used at the service of one’s fears and emotions and, in the other, the mind is used to somehow preside over those very same fears and emotions.  Thus, one feels realistic and the other idealistic.

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He felt that a child knows better, but that the adult has the information.  It is only when the adult starts to lose his obsession with information that he starts to know better.