We don't all get along, and I like it that way.
Conflict evokes certain questions of self, and is a singularly formative element in the development of each of our senses of identity. What do you stand for? What won't you stand for? Who will you stand with? These are questions we all answer, sooner or later, because we are forced--either by external events or the internal impulse of conscience.
Each of us has a duty to ourselves to find the truth. That involves gathering information, assimilating it, and reconciling conflicts. It is a complicated process uniquely suited for the human brain. Our understanding of truth manifests itself as virtue, justice, and ideology. we rightly live our lives according to this internal code, and there's where we really start to rub against it.
Make no mistake, the world will ask you to go along to get along, to sacrifice your judgment for the wisdom of the collective. There can exist no greater wrong than the betrayal of self that comes with that sort of capitulation. The alternative, the most natural extension of humanity's greatest virtue, is conflict, volatility, division.
It means that we still trust ourselves above all others. It means that we're all still moving towards purpose. Embrace the divide!
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