Insularity
Just had a friend on Facebook say that he had to "unfriend" people who didn't have their heads in the right place concerning the next election.
Interesting: while I will probably not vote in the next election for the first time since I turned 18, this attitude I find intriguing. Does it say, "if you have a differing opinion, I will not consider anything you have to say?"
There is a famous quote from Judge Learned Hand: "The best guarantor of liberty is the proposition that you may not be right." I wonder if there was ever rational, civil discourse concerning the issues. Or is that simply my painting a rosy picture of the past?
Interesting: while I will probably not vote in the next election for the first time since I turned 18, this attitude I find intriguing. Does it say, "if you have a differing opinion, I will not consider anything you have to say?"
There is a famous quote from Judge Learned Hand: "The best guarantor of liberty is the proposition that you may not be right." I wonder if there was ever rational, civil discourse concerning the issues. Or is that simply my painting a rosy picture of the past?
date
newest »
newest »
message 1:
by
Jan
(new)
Aug 04, 2016 12:52PM
One short addition: Is it this friend's kind of thinking that has led us to have the candidates we have?
reply
|
flag
