There is a fossilized and often frightened part of us that does not want to be unsettled by different than we are. We find defense and support for our too often moribund opinions in unexamined creeds, anachronistic institutions, and hackneyed cant. To think with fresh insight may threaten our worldviews and thereby our stability and protected enclaves. To question authority and the “known” may bring down upon us the wrath of present orthodoxy. We often speak past one another with different definitions of the same terms in our attempts to be diplomatic. Or we rail against those in disagreement with us—those who “stupidly” don’t see things the way we do. It may be frightening to question foundational understandings and doctrinaire presumptions, but it is this that leads to green fields and fills our hearts with existential knowing. To become unsettled in truth seeking is the joy in the pain of birthing.
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