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Commonsense, Machiavelli, Lincoln, and T. E. Lawrence inform us of a truth, two culture ideologies the antithesis of the Other in the same space will not be reconciled, in the end only one will exist. War has therefore always been inevitable between Western Democracy and Muslim Iran, Muslim-Islam in totality

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Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong , Vox, Brian Resnick, Jan 4, 2019 Aristotle’s Four laws of association: • Law of Similarity (e.g. cars and trucks) • Law of Contrast (e.g. black and white) • Law of Contiguity (closeness) (e.g. thunder and lightning) • Law of Frequency (e.g. go together) "An ancient Jewish ghetto, once a vibrant community, has been reduced to a small group of families" Persecution Defines Life for Yemen’s Remaining Jews , The New York Times, Rod Nordland, Feb. 18, 2015 "The maps the researchers have created to identify the camps and ghettos turn wide sections of wartime Europe into black clusters of death, torture and slavery — centered in Germany and Poland, but reaching in all directions." The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking , The New York Times, By Eric Lichtblau,  March 1, 2013 Commonsense  laws of association , Machiavelli, Lincoln, and T. E. Lawrence inform us of a truth, two biology...

Let 2023 be the year of Depolarised Living.

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Intellectual humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong , Vox,  Brian Resnick, Jan 4, 2019 "There is a good warning indicator of when two people might be falling prey to the dynamics of polarization we’ve been talking about. Suppose you and a friend agree on lots of things. On all of those, she seems as perfectly rational as you do. She handles the evidence well, she is alive to subtleties of argument, a smart cookie. Not much gets past her. I’ll bet she thinks much the same of you. But her position on issue X just seems radically wrong, stupid, even. How can she possibly think that? That’s the warning indicator. It is hard to believe that someone so rational in other areas could be so irrational in area X. That’s a sign that it’s time to layout evidence and argument on both sides, re-calibrate and re-evaluate. There’s no guarantee that like-mindedness will result, but strong disagreement in a small area with a person you think is generally rational is an indic...