Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Professor popularized "keep your minds open, but not to open your brains fall out".But you're assessing using your own values which are by no means universal.
Has you own rationality been largely accepted?
Has anybody's?
Obviously, you haven't a proxy to give other peoples' opinions.
The opinions you give are your own--that applies to all of us.
Nonetheless, some of us surely have a significantly inflated assessment of our own judgement.
Not me, of course. My ideological and moral perfection is a matter of public record and pretty universally accepted among the highly enlightened. .
But does that apply to all of us?
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/13/open-mind/
The philosophy has been replaced in America with "He who dies with the most toys wins".Prof. Walter Kotschnig told Holyoke College students to keep their minds open—“but not so open that your brains fall out.”
He condemned the purpose of students who go to college merely to learn skill and urged his listeners to find the “real aim of education, to acquire a philosophy of life, intellectual honesty, and a constant search for truth.”
It's not rocket science to understand that American's have a distinct average range of behavior. Same for our closet cultural neighbors, the Western Euros. Although gaining ground, the influence of both Asia and the Americas south of the Rio Grande is still a minority influence overall. The short answer is yes, yes and maybe. People make individual choices, but their choices follow both a range and an average as noted in the link for foreigners to the US: https://usahello.org/life-in-usa/culture/cultural-differences/