Are We a people of Poles?

I don't mean the type from Eastern Europe either, but rather a people who have lost their grey.

Everywhere I turn these days everyone has to be in one camp or another, there is no grey left. There is no opinion unless it is mine, anything in disagreement is not given the benefit of the doubt but is automatically condescending, snide, and/or derogatory. Where has our tolerance gone?

We have become a people obsessed by truth, by what we can prove. There is a huge and obsessive push for truth, that we should propagate this truth to our children and deliver them from the lies of the past. Now, well-informed, free-thinking children is a good thing, but so was believing in Santa and the Tooth Fairy.

Where has the grey gone? Whatever happened to that childhood innocence?

Back when I was a little un, I believed in Santa, I went to church, believed in God, baby Jesus, the whole nine yards. That changed over the years, my belief system changed, I'm now an atheist. We tell our kids these little fibs all the time, sometimes to allay fear, sometimes to comfort them. They are children after all and deserve to not be exposed to the world and all it's horrors just because that's the truth.

So we become selective with the truth we tell? Or are we selective with the truth we accept?

Moving on from the piffle we sometimes tell our children. I had a rather peculiar experience yesterday. I sat and watched someone come apart right in front of me. I sat and answered my questions and asked a few. What I saw was a refusal to accept a truth. It made me ask myself, why is it so hard for some of us to accept some truths, to the point of becoming unglued. I see such rigidity in beliefs and have a hard time reconciling that. I guess I believe some things to be true, but a truth is an altogether different animal. Truth is rigid and inflexible.

Folks talk about seeking Truth. I find myself wondering whether that is a good idea, I mean would it not be better to seek a continual evolution of thought, continual improvement and exploring new pathways. Rather than seeking the singular, seek something less tangible, something that provides room for growth and change.

Wallow in the Grey, not in the Truth of Black and White.