Contradictory answers to obvious questions.
That’s how you know that they’re not obvious.
When smart, committed people disagree about the answer to a question, you’ve found a question worth pursuing and a discussion worth having.
-- Seth Godin, Contradictory answers to obvious questions
These days, there seems to be many contradicting realities being maintained by so many groups of people. When are we going to actually talk to one another?
When you don't (won't) talk, there is something way too convenient going on.
It seems to me that, at the end of the day, a lot of this is about security...and what we are effectively trusting in, to try to get it or maintain it.
And, this security we seek smells like money. When all else fails or seems out of control, we want money to make us feel secure. We vote for people who will protect our prospects for getting or keeping money. Money's security-pitch pushes us towards believing that other groups are a threat and want to take it from us.
We trust in it, more than we should. Perhaps, that's why we talk about other things (like all our 'issues' with those who are supposedly threatening us) in a way that disguises what we really are believing in...to save us, to protect us. We can get to the point, where we don't even realize anymore that this is what we are doing.
This is "a question worth pursuing; a discussion worth having".
