| And today we talk about the mechanism whereby we each individually do our part to plunge the world into war.
Let's drop in on a typical discussion of religion, which ends, if amicable, in a mutually agreed decision to disagree on the nature of evidence, and its acceptability of its nature to either party. What's the basis for the decision, and does it have consequences down the line for the larger society and its interaction with other cultures?
The answer is yes. The level of personal discomfort necessary to accommodate another culture is higher than the level we settle for in these discussions we haven't the fortitude to complete, and it cripples us in our tolerance of the more difficult diplomacy of issues grounded in life habits
This is the basis of the popular aversion to the middle ground. We have developed an easy out from confronting our common reality: We just pretend that everyone's reality is different. They aren't.
Donald E Brown Human Universals. |
