I'VE A GOOD FRIEND who waxes at length on topics which lay, for the most part, beyond my ken.With great authority he speaks about extra dimensional beings,other worlds, unseen political conspiracies,and such things.
the UFO talk intrigues me. I believe in 'em, and the talk stimulates thought, imagination. Where i get off the rail is when the talk turns to politics, and the pope becomes a puppet, the federal reserve an evil empire, run by evil aliens and illuminati.
all spoken with the same self assured degree of certainty.
america is a divided house of polarized opinion, left right, liberal conservative, gay straight, christian non christian. Not to leave out perhaps the most important divide: rich poor, which may, ultimately, underscore all the others.
and everyone has the line drawn, and the wagons circled, and the weapons primed. we are a culture of strong beliefs, and little give or middle ground. a nation of winners, unwilling to lose, or admit defeat. A nation of type "A" arrogance.
My friend said there's a difference between having firm convictions and being arrogant. I said I disagree. We admire firm convictions. Maybe we should admire open mindedness, willingness to change.
Then, maybe we could begin to talk to each other, rather than at and through each other.
No comments:
Post a Comment