About 15 years ago, maybe a bit more, I found a very simple assertion which seemed nonetheless one of the wisest I ever heard. It goes like this:
In any disagreement, both parties tend to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they omit.
If it was a useful thing to keep in mind then, how much more so now, when people seem so intensely polarised on almost everything. (Somebody even vigourously disagreed with me recently on whether that is true!) What are the chances, really, that those on the left are 100% right about everything, and those on the right 100% wrong about everything? Or vice-versa? Ditto globalists and nationalists, supporters and opponents of government covid policy, those who believe conspiracy exists and those who believe it doesn’t, modernists vs post-modernists…. and on and on.
I seem to recall this essential little piece of wisdom having been attributed, when I found it, to some English philosopher of the past. But I can’t find any reference on it now. So if anybody knows….
Anyway, perhaps I’ll just ask that you consider passing it on to others. And even if we all broadly keep our picture of the world, based on our beliefs as best we have been able to work them out, but take a look to see what we have omitted from that picture in order to make it easier to defend, maybe we’ll create a little ripple of postive change in 2023.
Until then, Happy Christmas to all of you who read ‘World in Transition’, and many thanks for your interest in my writing to date.
Michael Warden.
Just read your article in New View "Connecting Courage and Comprehension ".
Wonderful great job,.
Have you read Paul Embersons "From Gondishapur to Silicon Valley"? He adds the work that Steiner did with the new souls of 20th C and the meditations in the Etheric that would enable mankind to keep Ahriman out.
Good follow-up to your beautifully clear article. Thanks Cheryl
Along those lines; consider that polarity lies within the category rather than between the categories.
Happy New Year to All.