Reasoning with the unreasonable
Progress is a bad word to some. Progress can't be trusted. Progress is of the Devil . Progress is code-speak for an untrustworthy agenda. Etc. Etc. Those who cling to dogma and have their minds made-up, regardless of what information may become available will always think so. They may choose other words, but the effect is the same; Conversation becomes futile and you / we / all are stuck in place. What to do? How long shall we endure such rigidity before moving on? Why would we continue to argue, fight, coax, teach, and attempt to lead those who refuse to listen? Imagine a primitive tribe living along a riverbank. For centuries they've hunted, gathered, and subsisted in a limited region and made sense of the world according to that which they've been exposed to. Conditions begin to change, resources begin to dwindle, and one day a party of explorers sets out to find more fertile ground; And they find just that, down-river a bit. They return to the camp and infor