Mobbings, firings, Orwellian narrative control: we should neither treat humans nor the truth like this in an organized civilization.
Dissidents often thank me for having taken the time to read ideas, most obscure in careful detail, and more importantly, for treating those individuals as human beings. Some of them become great friends. Even if those ideas are ones I may disagree with or even reading thoughts amid upheaval or contention, I read each nation’s great persons, as much as their dissidents, with some level of care. Of course, facts matter too, even if it is uncomfortable, just as much as our humanity and the natural world. An important update for Canada, as a dissidence quickly passes the threshold into patriotism, the moral questions being confronted today will have heavy consequences across the whole of society.
(Incognito)
