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Reason and Reasonable Are Not the Same
Knowing the difference between reason and reasonable can smooth-over any path you choose.
We live in a fear-based society. Everywhere you turn fear is used to prevent growth, create artificial limitations, stifle creativity, and disempower the masses while keeping a select few “in power.”
If you don’t believe me, just look at the GOP here in the United States. The vast majority of their party line is how the “other” — be it liberal, immigrant, black person, woman, LGBTQ person, or what-have-you — will take what is yours and screw you over. “They” have it in for you — and you should be afraid.
The Democrats also employ fear in their party line. But mostly it’s based on the clear-and-present danger represented by the willingness of the other side to subvert, disregard, and overthrown the democratic process for their own enlargement. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t still get abused by them, too.
And fear permeates from the big-picture matters like politics to personal matters. There are expectations for how to live well in our culture that, if disregarded, you should be afraid of. Instead of encouragement for the effort to expand it’s often met with concern and discouragement.
