We’re used to hearing the cliché: ‘I can’t believe how divided we have become.’ But any serious review of Western culture, from the classical age through to the Reformation and the 20th century, shows this to be more than a little fatuous. We have always been divided, and it is these divisions which have created the best and worst in our cultural legacies. However, what has changed is our ability to embrace disagreement.
If we honored truth above point-scoring, and dialogue over bickering, we wouldn’t fear division – we would recognize it as the engine of social progress.
Like the wimps in universities now? College is where you are supposed to be challenged, supposed to learn new things. Why attend if your wittle feelings are going to be bumped? Go back home and grow up. Attend college when you can take it. All views come to university; that's what it is for. Instead of whining and pouting, engage, debate. Learn something outside of your comfort zone. Don't stop others from being challenged and learning; go home or grow up.
If we weren't fighting each other we might be fighting those billionaires who are moving our jobs overseas.
Why would the greedy billionaires (not all billionaires, the greedy billionaires) support one side when the real gain is to support both and keep us fighting.
Yup, that's how the Vatican has done it for centuries now.