"Quite regularly I'm told that I've given somebody food for thought. Or that they've seen an issue on a way they hadn't seen it before. " I've gotten the same thing. But I can count the number of minds I've actually changed in 25 years on the fingers of one hand. And all of them were intellectually honest and reflective people. Attribute…
"Quite regularly I'm told that I've given somebody food for thought. Or that they've seen an issue on a way they hadn't seen it before. "
I've gotten the same thing. But I can count the number of minds I've actually changed in 25 years on the fingers of one hand. And all of them were intellectually honest and reflective people. Attributes that define very few indeed.
I hate to sound like I am counseling futility but the only thing that seems to reliably unite opposing sides is a threat from outside both. Remember in the weeks after 9/11 we seemed to drop our tribalism for a while? Well, it was a lot less intense then than now. And that didn't last long.
And any threat powerful enough to overcome the MAGA/Woke division is not likely to be survivable.
"Quite regularly I'm told that I've given somebody food for thought. Or that they've seen an issue on a way they hadn't seen it before. "
I've gotten the same thing. But I can count the number of minds I've actually changed in 25 years on the fingers of one hand. And all of them were intellectually honest and reflective people. Attributes that define very few indeed.
I hate to sound like I am counseling futility but the only thing that seems to reliably unite opposing sides is a threat from outside both. Remember in the weeks after 9/11 we seemed to drop our tribalism for a while? Well, it was a lot less intense then than now. And that didn't last long.
And any threat powerful enough to overcome the MAGA/Woke division is not likely to be survivable.