To arrive there, we must endure, learn from, and include the disorder stage, transcending the first naïve order—but also still including it! It amounts to the best of the conservative and the best of the liberal positions. They hold on to what was good about the first order but also offer it very needed correctives. People who have reached this stage, like the Jewish prophets, might be called “radical traditionalists.” Loving their truth and their group enough to critique it. Critiquing it enough to maintain their own integrity and intelligence. These wise ones have stopped overreacting but
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