Dream

I had a dream last night where I was interacting with someone I know.  I have several people who show up from time to time, and who seem to mean specific things to my unconscious, to symbolize for me specific sorts of energies.  Some of these puzzles I have deciphered, but not all.

In any event, in the dream I put my arm around this person and said “you and I are nothing alike at all.  That means we have a GREAT DEAL to teach one another.”

I share this (and not the rest of a really wild [like all dreams aren’t wild] dream) because I thought that was an interesting idea: we learn the most from people unlike us. 

Diversity–GENUINE diversity–is a worthy ideal.  It is simply another example of what I might call the soupification of the American mind that HiveMind is claimed to be diverse simply because the faces within it differ, as does what they do with their genitals.

But intellectual diversity, emotional diversity, diversity of thought, opinion and practice: that is enormously useful in building larger, not smaller, minds.

And the goal of a UNIVERSE-ity is, in fact, to build larger minds.  When it builds smaller minds, when people contract as a result of their exposure, this is a patent and really inexcusable failure.