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 &ldquo;the other&rdquo; (which suggests &lsquo;<em>[t]he problem is where our long-standing aspiration to sustain some inclusive moral order now leads us&rsquo;</em>&nbsp;).&sup1; In the past, when it was much more difficult to travel around the world and Globalization was slower, nations naturally excluded &ldquo;others&rdquo; not because they so much directly willed it, but because technological limits made it a fact of life. Radically different people just didn&rsquo;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 &ldquo;just didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo; It was nobody&rsquo;s fault, and so the exclusion was easier to live with, as it was easier to enjoy possible &ldquo;belonging&rdquo; (psychologically, existentially) &mdash; things could be no other way.</p> <p><a href="https://o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/belonging-again-part-50-74330bbe5618"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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