Where's the Common Ground?
Tom Tomorrow's current cartoon in Monday's Salon (subscription necessary or watch a short ad for a day pass) raises an interesting question. How can the two groups in this country--blue state/red state, liberal/conservative, left/right, whatever labels you want to use--how can they (we) have any kind of dialogue if the self-evident truths we each blatantly see in current events are contradictory?
posted by Doug @ 11:55 PM
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I often wonder if this is a new phenomenon or not. Hasn't it always been this way?
Maybe I'm idealizing the past, but it seems to me that there used to be at least some people who were aware that more than one point of view could be valid. I know that there are some out there who think this openness was taken too far and that for a time the cultural belief seemed to be that every point of view is valid, so perhaps now we just have to suffer through the inevitable backlash in which those same people insist, "Only my point of view is valid."
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