Recently Destin Sandlin, the owner and author of the YouTube channel SmarterEveryDay (one of the biggest channels of its content category) made a video about the so-called "Johari Window".
Said "window" is a sort of classification about knowledge about oneself, as an individual person, about your personality traits, behavior, customs, beliefs, and other personal characteristics, divided into four categories:
- Things that you know about yourself which is also known to others. Nothing to hide here.
- Things that only you know about yourself, which you have never revealed to others, and which others have no way of knowing about you.
- Things that you don't know about yourself but which others do, as they can see things about you that you yourself don't even notice. In other words, personal characteristics that you are unaware of, but which others have noticed and can see.
- Things about yourself that you are unaware of and which nobody else knows or has noticed either.
Sandlin describes how he had never thought of this before, and how fascinating he finds the concept. Also about the thought being a bit scary that there are things that others know about you that you yourself are unaware of.
In the video he goes to visit a good friend of his, one Daylan Woodall, who is a pastor, writer and lecturer, about this very subject.
The conversation with Woodall goes well and is very amicable and friendly, and it's a joy to watch.
However, when Sandlin starts to talk about category 3 above, in other words personal characteristics that he is himself unaware of but others know about him (which he quite understandably is a bit scared about, as he states), things go suddenly south.
I don't mean from Sandlin's perspective, or the perspective of the video itself per se. I mean at least from my perspective.
And the reason is that, for some unfathomable reason, Woodall takes the opportunity to deviate from what the "Johari Window" actually is about and starts preaching. Preaching what? Christian faith and dogma?
Nope. Far-leftist faith and dogma! The far-leftist catechism!
The idea of the "Johari Window" is quite clearly about personal traits, traits of the individual person, characteristics, behaviors, customs and quirks of the individual person. In other words, in this case, what personal characteristics, behaviors or quirks Destin Sandlin has because he is Destin Sandlin, rather than some other person. Things that he does or says, because of innate instincts or inadvertently learned when growing up, or whatever. Things that others notice about him, which he has not noticed himself.
Moreover, these are characteristics and traits that could be moved from category 3 to category 1, when the person learns about them, ie. when others tell him about it and he becomes aware of them and realizes that it's actually true. (And if the trait is somehow negative, ostensibly it's something that the person could learn not to do, or to change.)
In other words: Traits that you don't notice about yourself, but others do notice about you, personally, as a personal trait that you in particular have, and which could be "moved" to category 1 by making you aware of it.
Woodall lists a couple of examples that are perhaps borderline, but then he goes completely off the rails and starts preaching one of the most evil "woke" doctrines, as I have written in another blog post. I quote:
"You are a white guy, and what that means is that your view of the world isn't necessarily going to naturally relate and connect to people that come from a context different than yours. So, like, you don't know what it feels like to be pulled over by the cops as a black guy because you are a white guy. So when I tell you a story about me getting pulled over by the police or whatever, you are gonna perceive that differently because you are a white guy. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but..."
Woodall has gone completely off the rails here. He is not stating something that he has noticed about Destin Sandlin, as an individual person, an individual behavior or personality trait that Sandlin himself probably hasn't noticed. Instead, he is declaring declaring that because of his race he cannot understand Woodall's own paranoia, no matter what.
He is not saying "this is something you didn't know about yourself". Sandlin was probably quite well aware of this leftist racial doctrine. Woodall is not informing Sandlin "here is something you do, and I mean you yourself as an individual, that you probably haven't noticed, something that you probably didn't know."
Instead, he has gone somewhere else entirely. He is saying: "Here's something that you can't know because you are white. Not because you are Destin Sandlin, but because you belong to this group of people. You might perfectly well be aware of this already, so I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't know already, but the fact is that you, as a white person, are physically incapable of knowing what another group of people, in this case black people, go through in these situations."
He is not revealing a characteristic or trait that's personal to Sandling himself. He is preaching the far-leftist gospel about white people vs. black people, and how white people are incapable of "understanding" no matter what they do.
Also notice how there's a strong indication that Woodall's paranoia about being stopped by cops seems to be largely learned and self-inflicted rather than it being the result of personal experience. Of course I don't know anything about his personal history and life, but it seems to me that he has been taught to be paranoid, and thus he is paranoid when stopped by cops, rather than having actually experienced some kind of discrimination or abuse. Other people have taught him to be paranoid, and that's how he became such.
Not only is that doctrine completely off-topic when it comes to the subject of the video (ie. the so-called "Johari Window"), but it's just despicable, as I describe in more detail in that other blog post. It just reinforces the racial divide in the country: It declares that "this is how it is, and you cannot understand it, period", and disagreement and objections are not allowed. It just keeps the wound open, not allowing common understanding to happen. It's not trying to make the other side understand, it's outright declaring "you are incapable of understanding, and there's nothing you can do about it, period." It just keeps the chasm wide open, forcefully, and you are not even allowed to object.
This message is quite different from the one supported by Morgan Freeman (or at least something he did support a decade or two ago, I don't know if he still does), and that's that in order to end racism we should just stop talking about it, rather than having these chasms wide open by constantly keeping the clear separation between races. As he says in that video:
"I'm gonna stop calling you a white man, and I'm gonna ask you to stop calling me a black man."
Exactly.
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