Belonging Again (Part 50)
<p>Pluralism weakens the authorities and powers of any given X over the individuals who ascribe to it; the only way to maintain this authority is to exclude “the other” (which suggests ‘<em>[t]he problem is where our long-standing aspiration to sustain some inclusive moral order now leads us’</em> ).¹ In the past, when it was much more difficult to travel around the world and Globalization was slower, nations naturally excluded “others” not because they so much directly willed it, but because technological limits made it a fact of life. Radically different people just didn’t cross paths as much, not because they actively wanted to avoid one another, but because the nature of the world was one in which they “just didn’t.” It was nobody’s fault, and so the exclusion was easier to live with, as it was easier to enjoy possible “belonging” (psychologically, existentially) — things could be no other way.</p>
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