Of Kneeling, Screaming, and Debating
Last night, I laid in bed and thought about life. It was an important moment in my life. I had a lot of turning points in a lot of my life stressors last night. However, after this, I had a time where my mind was running 100 miles a minute about different things. And I was thinking about this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/opinion/dying-art-of-disagreement.html. This summarized so well my thoughts about recent events, and helped me bring together my logic, and here's the thing: Disagreement is a part of our culture as Americans. It's well-documented that the Continental Congress often devolved to fisticuffs, and the Constitutional Convention had physical casualties. However, this is still different from what we have today, of not even being willing to let someone who we disagree with have a moment to speak. And that's because the discussions aren't about pros, cons, logic and conclusions. It's about showing "how right" you are. Pe