It so amazes me that so many people I have been friends with for so long, shared thoughts and ideas with, seen and appreciated the beauty of their vision and soul (and vice versa, it would be hoped)--how we can differ so radically on this. I'm in the weird position of being up about the election (assuming it ever ends and Bush wins), and being down because so many people I care about are depressed about it.
I'm still pondering this, and what I told someone on Heidi's LJ--holding others to your own interpretations will always limit an ability to understand their perceptions. Things you seem to take as self-evident, I may not consider to be valid. If two sides don't start on the same page, with the same assumptions, the conclusions cannot help but differ. So for a very broad response, I'd say that I don't share some of your assumptions, and so have not reached the same conclusions.
Cold comfort for you, that; or none--except maybe that the vision you have, full of reason to despair, is far from the only future possible; just the only one you're seeing right now.
Mixed feelings
I'm still pondering this, and what I told someone on Heidi's LJ--holding others to your own interpretations will always limit an ability to understand their perceptions. Things you seem to take as self-evident, I may not consider to be valid. If two sides don't start on the same page, with the same assumptions, the conclusions cannot help but differ. So for a very broad response, I'd say that I don't share some of your assumptions, and so have not reached the same conclusions.
Cold comfort for you, that; or none--except maybe that the vision you have, full of reason to despair, is far from the only future possible; just the only one you're seeing right now.
~Amandageist