Nietzsche: “He who sees badly sees less and less; he who listens badly hears more than has been said.”

I would add: “And he who thinks badly knows everything.”

Ideally, youthful hubris gradually matures as it is tempered  by repeated surprise.

By surprising others and being surprised by them, hubris gives way to a capacity and inclination for mutual respect.

The prerequisite for this tempering is integrity. The personality cannot be hard to the point of brittleness so that it shatters under the impact of shock, but it must be firm enough that it can hold a shape, however much its form develops. But it cannot be soft to the point of formless liquid that experiences ripple and slosh through it, leaving no enduring change. The ideal mean is probably not the halfway point between unyielding and unresisting, but more in the vicinity of 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unyielding.

An excessive appetite for domination or submission — often reflected in preference for authoritarianism tends to retard development of mutual respect. But so does an excessive aversion to all bonds of obligation, which makes mutual respect unnecessary and encourages social alienation, at a terrible cost to the human soul.

Liberalism is operationalized mutual respect. But authoritarians and alienated anarchist punks know nothing of this — while believing they are wise to it.