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Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon's 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions

"It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar," Anaïs Nin observed. "In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent," Martine advised in his famous 1866 do's and don'ts of conversation, "so you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery." And yet, Whedon argues, ours is a culture Simone de Beauvoir would wince at, one staggeringly uncomfortable with ambiguity and fixated on righteous reductionism -- a toxic tendency where change is most critical and urgent:

   [Our culture] is not long on contradiction or ambiguity. ... It likes things to be simple, it likes things to be pigeonholed--good or bad, black or white, blue or red. And we're not that. We're more interesting than that. And the way that we go into the world understanding is to have these contradictions in ourselves and see them in other people and not judge them for it. To know that, in a world where debate has kind of fallen away and given way to shouting and bullying, that the best thing is not just the idea of honest debate, the best thing is losing the debate, because it means that you learn something and you changed your position. The only way really to understand your position and its worth is to understand the opposite.

    That doesn't mean the crazy guy on the radio who is spewing hate, it means the decent human truths of all the people who feel the need to listen to that guy. You are connected to those people. They're connected to him. You can't get away from it. This connection is part of contradiction. It is the tension I was talking about. This tension isn't about two opposite points, it's about the line in between them, and it's being stretched by them. We need to acknowledge and honor that tension, and the connection that that tension is a part of. Our connection not just to the people we love, but to everybody, including people we can't stand and wish weren't around. The connection we have is part of what defines us on such a basic level.  

○ Whedon '87 Delivers 181st Commencement Address (May2013)

OK, times do change ... what's culture and the effects of social media in a digital age. Have we mostly become robots being spoon fed bs from all directions. Chained to our iPhones, the Internet of Things and being programmed by Hollywood and MSM? Add Trump into the mix and IC disinformation campaign ... what lies in the future of the human race?

I came across this theme searching for an image of Angela Merkel and Horst Seehofer, speaking asylum and immigration policy with two voices, Germany on a divergence in CSU and CDU politics. Another provocation from Seehofer, presenting HIS Master Plan, predated to the coalition talks of recent compromise with the SPD ...

○ German interior minister presents his migration master plan | DW |

Perhaps most provocatively, Seehofer's plan still contained the term "transit centers," which the SPD had vetoed in favor of "transit procedures," and which has already been ditched by the government he represents. Still, the interior minister refused to admit it was a provocation - at least not in so many words. "It is not a provocation, but if you like, you could also see it that way," he told the Bild newspaper elliptically.

Dutch right-wing newspaper De Telegraaf recent headline, "CSU puts knife to throat of Merkel."

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