Thursday, June 23, 2011

The Validity of Your Argument Must Have Gotten Lost in Interpretation or Multiple Translations

It's very difficult to try to bring humans together in the world. There are different cultures, different forms of government, and different religions. And making it even tougher we have a communication issue, as there are different languages, with different alphabets, symbols, and things that look like hieroglyphics to each of those different groups of people and their perception. Further, there are different dialects of the same language, and different sects of the same religion. You can understand why there is political impasse due to misunderstanding, mistrust, paranoia, and culture.

One thing I find very interesting, is that each country, religion, and culture seems to have their version of the moral high ground. And yet when you look at it closely, much of the moral high ground is nothing more than an overblown state of hypocrisy. And no, I am not going to pick on Islam in this article, nor do I wish them to pick on my culture, which I admit is not always perfect. However, it is what I know, and I derive my morality, and sense of honesty and integrity from my own culture, as do they from theirs. Okay so, you're beginning to see my point.

There seems to be a fear in the United States that Islam is going to try to take over our way of life, and there is much conspiracy theory, and paranoia in Middle Eastern nations that the Western world is trying to impose Western culture, Western laws, and a Western way of life on their culture. It seems to be the same argument from an opposite view. The other day, I was having a debate, between myself and someone from the Islamic world, however I wasn't talking to a real person, I was attempting to have this argument in my mind.

Indeed, I created a character based on the books I've read, and the articles that I've perused, and for every argument I can come up with, I came up with another rhetorical argument thinking it through from the other's perspective. Eventually, I came up with this statement;

"The validity of your argument must have gotten lost in interpretation or multiple translations, which has now led us to political impasse."

Do you see how I derived that statement, and really isn't that the problem that we face in the world. The concept of winning someone else's heart and mind, when they don't want to have it won, don't necessarily trust you, nor you necessarily them, is really akin to holding up a mirror, albeit a cloudy one to one's own reflection.

Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it from a philosophical perspective. If you have any ideas or real life solutions to the challenges we face as our world comes closer together, then please shoot me an e-mail.

Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.worldthinktank.net/ - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.


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