Polemic

There's a new integral FB group that was started in an attempt to avoid all the so-called nastiness that seems inherent to these discussion groups. However it seems cloyingly nice to me, everyone having to be on their best behavior as if that is the true measure of integrality. Which of course reminds me of Maher's New Rule in the vid below. I'm also reminded of Wilber's chapter on polemic in The Essential Ken Wilber. There's an appropriate use of it that seems missing in certain environments where "the abdication of discriminating wisdom and the loss or moral fiber to express it is too often equated with spirituality" (153). A good chapter to remember.