Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 10/02/17
The polariztion rhetoric seems to be cooling down just a bit. Whether it’s political, or social, or scientific, or sexual, or historical, it doesn’t seem to be as constantly in our face.
Maybe that’s because we’re all weary of it.
When you have a “cause” or an “agenda” or a “grievance,” your commitment and involvement certainly may justify your wholehearted support. But when that support becomes zealotry, when no remark or statement can be made that doesn’t include advocacy for that position, when you demand not discussion but converts, it becomes tendentious and wearying. After a while, when the conversation becomes impossible without reverting to someone’s mission, our eyes tend to glaze over.
As I’m sure you surmise, I’m not saying that there aren’t sufficient and worthy causes to commit one’s energy to addressing (and I’m not giving examples here, lest someone feels I’ve omitted their own priority). But we need to be “whole” people, organized around a full life, accommodating those who may disagree even while trying to influence them, and contributing to society in diverse ways.
Otherwise, to quote Marshall McLuhan, “The price of eternal vigilence is indifference.”
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. —Marcus Aurelius
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