Once again, Dwight Towers has suggested I use a comment I've made on that site as a post here. This time I may go a little long, adding further comment and breaking any chance at pithiness, so admired in certain quarters… I keep coming back to dissensus as being more important. In false consensus we manufacture consent. In real consensus we are all of a single mind. Neither seems that useful. Dissensus asks us to let go of righteousness and to accept that others will disagree. That viewpoints we find even abhorrent may have a validity we cannot fathom. It’s not singing Kumbaya. It’s not even necessarily being “nice” to those we disagree with, but it does hold us back from seeing them as enemies to be destroyed. Behind it all is the possibility that a lack of single-mindedness, while happily less