Even though I had a mainstream Anglophone education, from my perspective, everyone has a different point of view from me. So I expect people to disagree, and unless I want to be a practicing solopsist, I need to be able to interact with them on a relatively civil basis. It is, however, as Dean Shareski laments, becoming a lost art. "I remain desperate to find examples of thoughtful, intelligent people engaging across ideological divides—people who wrestle with difficult issues, challenge each other's thinking, and explore the real-world consequences of policy decisions," he writes. It's hard, because we grapple with each other not only with reason and logic, but with sentiment, emotion, passion, culture and history. Still, like Shareski, I remain "committed to diversity, critical thinking, media literacy, and civil discourse," even though these very foundations of civil society have recently come under attack.
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