05 Of Polarization and Reconciliation

Your squiggle sense reconciles opposites like art and science, work and pleasure, spiritual and material as inextricable, dynamic, complementary aspects of the complementary nature. They are not divided. But if you can’t, don’t or won’t use your squiggle sense, opposites become divisions and polarizations that can terrorize and disenchant the world. In them you can find no peaceful accord, no tenable middle way: “My way or the highway!” “Either with me or against me!” “Whose side are you on?” “Either us or them!” Sadly, we do not live in a squiggle-aware world. Polarization remains one of humanity’s greatest stumbling blocks, both a root cause and consequence of a world divided. The news (both factual and fake) is inundated with stories of polarization and its devious narrow-minded siblings—extremism, intransigence, intolerance and hubris. You shake your head at it all, thinking, “It’s so frustrating! Can’t anything be done about this…Ridiculum?”.