I have been reading a writer named Albert Jay Nock. One of his essay's is The Decline of Conversation.

The general idea in it is that you can tell how mature a civilization is by their ability to converse.

He writes

"How can you have any conversation if all you are expected to do is agree?"

then continues with

"It is a mark of maturity to differentiate easily and naturally between personal or social opposition and intellectual opposition."

We are not a mature peoples.

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