The problem is those who are certain they have all the truth and no latitude for differences even though it is impossible to maintain any effective group without making its natural and abiding diversity a strength. Authority works better when it isn't so authoritarian it promotes the illusion of agreement. CCCU institutions for example a…
The problem is those who are certain they have all the truth and no latitude for differences even though it is impossible to maintain any effective group without making its natural and abiding diversity a strength. Authority works better when it isn't so authoritarian it promotes the illusion of agreement. CCCU institutions for example are always cultures where the private transcript (students and faculty in less public arenas) deviates all over the map beyond the currently funded institutional orthodoxy. Nobody, not even the most quixotic extreme calvinist today can or would want to live in the mentality and social context of John Calvin. (Which was also not a monoculture despite his best efforts to discipline even the livestock of Geneva.)
We want thinking individuals with wills of their own, yes? Or yes-men for Jesus all mushed into the same mold by -- who? A pope? A fuehrer?
The problem is those who are certain they have all the truth and no latitude for differences even though it is impossible to maintain any effective group without making its natural and abiding diversity a strength. Authority works better when it isn't so authoritarian it promotes the illusion of agreement. CCCU institutions for example are always cultures where the private transcript (students and faculty in less public arenas) deviates all over the map beyond the currently funded institutional orthodoxy. Nobody, not even the most quixotic extreme calvinist today can or would want to live in the mentality and social context of John Calvin. (Which was also not a monoculture despite his best efforts to discipline even the livestock of Geneva.)
We want thinking individuals with wills of their own, yes? Or yes-men for Jesus all mushed into the same mold by -- who? A pope? A fuehrer?