We don’t live in a time or culture that values being non-controversial. It only feels controversial because our culture has lost touch with what it means to be human.
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That's because people are dishonest and poor thinkers. If people learned how to be honest, think and communicate precisely, we wouldn't have as much controversy in the world. We are in a position now where the only way out of the global state of controversy is to engage in controversial exchange of ideas with the goal of quelling the controversy. That's EXACTLY what my research aims to do, but apparently that won't make my life happy or fulfilling. Apparently taking aim at world peace and ending religiously motivated violence is a goal not worth pursuing because I need to spend 18 years dealing with bullshit.
Sorry, but some people have bigger fish to fry.
Nurses gonna nurse. Surgeons gonna do surgery.
"And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and worship.
They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which he has built, this sum of good made up of many diverse forms, this instrument whereby the will of God operates in that which he has made, ungrudgingly favouring man’s welfare; this combination and accumulation of all the manifold things that call forth the veneration, praise, and love of the beholder.
Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven; the pious will be deemed insane, the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good.
As for the soul, and the belief that it is immortal by nature, or may hope to attain to immortality, as I have taught you, – all this they will mock, and even persuade themselves that it is false.
No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven, will be heard or believed."
We can always contribute to the correction of that by valuing non-controversial contributors ourselves. I know plenty but careful where I share them as there are always people who will find them controversial if brought unwilling into contact.