Promote What You Love….

At first glance, this makes sense.  It’s what Buckminster Fuller meant when he said, “You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”

There is a problem here, however.  We live in a time where the world’s most powerful person is a pathological liar, blatant criminal, and wannabe dictator.  We’re surrounded by Nazis, Earth-plunderers, and child abusers.  I’m happy to tell you: I’m vehemently against these people.

This whole subject has been on the minds of the great thinkers since Plato, and it’s perhaps best summed up by mid-20th Century philosopher of science Karl Popper, who developed the “paradox of tolerance.” It states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Popper went on, “In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.”