For those whose honest intention is learning… the path most often leads to an endless array of new branches and abilities to both embody new faculties and resist infectious forms of often uncorrectable ignorance.

For those whose intentions are criticism… the path most often leads to a narrowing of awareness and an urge to repeat the patterns of behavior that most often won them accolades from peers.

One of these paths has a reasonable future.

The other will only rarely produce advancement…