#naivete

[raisongardee]

"Quel avait donc été le tort de Louis XVI ? Quand on lit les mémoires de Saint-Priest, on s’aperçoit que l’erreur du gouvernement de 1789 n’a pas été d’être tyrannique (il n’était même pas autoritaire), ni d’être hésitant, ni d’être fermé aux aspirations du siècle. Son erreur, énorme et funeste, a été de ne pas croire au mal. Elle a été de ne pas croire qu’il y eût de mauvaises gens, des criminels capables de tout le jour où ils ne rencontrent plus d’obstacle. Saint-Priest montre Louis XVI dans toutes les circonstances, et jusqu’au 10 août ou peut s’en faut, convaincu que tout cela s’arrangerait et que ni les émeutiers de la Bastille ni les révolutionnaires n’était si méchants qu’on le disait, et d’ailleurs, au moins au début, bien peu de personnes le lui disaient. A la Convention, pendant son procès, Louis XVI répondait encore poliment, comme à des juges impartiaux et intègres."

Jacques Bainville, Journal, 1927-1935.

[superxstarzz]

alright, nobody reqd these BUT I needed them for a little thing I'm working on rn ;)

[mbti-notes]

Cogntive function wise, between INFJ vs INFP, who would be more naive? You used to repost a fun ask about most to least gullible, & INFP ranked 1st while INFJ ranked nearly last. Seeing INTJ ranked higher in naivety compared to INFJ is already 1 thing. But I thought theres always a certain naivety in NFs? Or do FiNe in INFP allow them to accept & believe in possibilities a lot more easily than the NiFe in INFJ? But wouldnt inf Se make INFJ just as naive?

Joke posts are joke posts. And reposting doesn't necessarily mean I agree with the author. I don't agree in this case because, realistically, I don't think this is something that can be ranked by type.

Generally speaking, there are a lot of factors that can contribute to naivete. I would say "wisdom" that comes from life experience is probably the biggest factor, which is separate from personality type. E.g. Comparing a 15-year-old INFP and a 45-year-old INFJ is going to be very different than comparing a 15-year-old INFJ and a 45-year-old INFP.

As for "believing in possibility", there is indeed a difference between Ni and Ne that might influence naivete to some extent. Ni envisions what "will" be, i.e., wants to know which (future) reality is certain to come into being. By contrast, Ne envisions what "could" be, i.e., wants to change (current) reality into a potentiality or a state that doesn't yet exist. From this perspective, one could argue that Ni is better situated to perceive reality accurately than Ne.

This would of course be modified by how optimally a particular individual is able to use their functional stack. E.g. INFJs with well-oiled Ni+Ti are notoriously great at seeing through people. INFPs are great at visualizing potential through Ne, but not so good at seeing people's darker elements when Te is often overlooked.

[j-august]

She was uncomfortably young, of course. Still at that most alarming stage when sophistication and naivete appeared to take turns so that there was no telling what might offend her unbearably or what else, much more difficult, she might take in her stride.

Margery Allingham, The China Governess

[betweenthetimeandsound]

Love Song for the Naive at Heart

Are you brave enough to face a rifle?

Are you courageous enough to know that Rita didn't have the best interest; and she just likes the way she pours molten honey on your tongue?

Life is not a dandelion, waiting for a breeze to make a thousand wishes come true. It's a rope, fraying at the edges, challenging the owner to either drag a ship or their bloated corpse?

Are you brave enough to face a rifle?

Because instead of fighting, you'll pick up a daisy and twist it around a bullet. --Elda Mengisto

[singlesomethinginstyle]

This is a blog for women. A safe space for women

And that means I will discuss topics that help you see your reality in a new light.

That is going question your status quo or break your perception. That is the POINT. The truth can't be hidden.

And sometimes, be it in asks or comments or DMs, I see messages that amount to the following:

"But my father is not like this"

"My husband/boyfriend is different, he's not like this"

"My brother is not like this"

My dear girl, do you want to give the men in your life an award for not commiting crimes against you?

Just because it doesn't happen in your immediate vicinity or in your brainwashed awareness does not mean it does not happen.

Go stand in a court house and preach this to every battered woman there after hearing her story, I dare you.

[andreai04]

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

It's funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens; we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.

[invalid-request]

Sorry I missed your point, I was trying to assume you weren't an asshole