[wastoute]

One of the best talks I ever heard in a “Professional Development” setting was a guy invited in by a company I had just started working for. He and his partner started out as consultants to investigate what factors came into play to produce corporate and institutional failure. He went into great detail, foot notes, referenced, etc. He said they were quite surprised to discover that in each case they looked at the reason the failure grew and finally killed the institution was because there was this cultural blind spot they could not acknowledge. Since they couldn’t talk about it they were doomed from the beginning because the cultural blindness just became more entrenched as things got worse and worse.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Since they couldn’t talk about it they were doomed from the beginning because the cultural blindness just became more entrenched as things got worse and worse."

Very interesting, especially since our society is moving into a situation in which the left deems many topics beyond discussion ("the science is settled," etc.), and more and more ideas cannot be expressed (e.g., criticism of Islam or any aspect of the LGBTQ agenda).

Ironically, when a leftist says "we need to have a discussion," or a "national discussion," he doesn't really mean it; he means that he will TELL US what the problem is, and what the solution is, and we will LISTEN.