powerful metaphor that helps is what Makoto Fujimura calls border-walking. He describes this as people who choose to spend time on the edges of ideas, cultures, and tribes. He explained that: These were individuals who lived on the edges of their groups, going in and out of them, sometimes bringing back news to the tribe…. [They] lower barriers to understanding and communication, and start to defuse the culture wars.…[It’s] a role of cultural leadership in a new mode, serving functions including empathy, memory, warning, guidance, mediation, and reconciliation. Those who journey to the borders
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