I am not talking to you! I am talking to you! Do you understand what points I am making? Then I am talking to you! Do you not understand what I’m saying? Then I am not speaking your language. If you would like to understand me, you can learn my language, or I can speak to you in yours.
It is not the first time in America’s history that we are faced with multiple, fractious parties within the supposed two party system. America is a large place, with many factions, factions within factions, that have little to do with conspiracy and everything to do with region. Who is fighting right now? People who share a culture with people who share a culture. People who share a lifestyle with people who share a lifestyle. People are fighting with people who speak a completely different language.
Imagine having a conversation of nuance and depth with someone who hasn’t read the books that taught you about nuance and depth. I have had those conversations, I have had many of those conversations. I have had them with a breadth of people, about a breadth of topics.
In most situations, it’s difficult to divorce one’s sense of overall morality from the present from the gut. The present is now and the part of our brain wired to react immediately is not wired to react with depth or nuance. People who are overexposed, people who’s defenses are down because they are emotionally overloaded, these are the people that you cannot talk to with a well thought out essay about the possibilities of generational change. What do they hear from you? They haven’t read this line in this paragraph. It’s too far down.
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