The differences here go deeper, it appears to me, much deeper
than agreement and disagreement.

It has been an edifying experience
to look, and look again and again as I have done,
at the divide --
on the older, openly contentious thread --
between two categories of submissions
and the members/posters who submit them.

My counselor, who taught me much that I did not know before
about what social animals humans are,
used to distinguish between
the cognitive and the schematic.
She had to do so, in my personal instance,
because my issue of early childhood trauma
had schematic consequences,
and the cognitive level does not go deep enough
to confront schema.

I submit, correctly or incorrectly I suppose,
as this is outside my area of expertise,
that the differences being aggravated through discussion here
go deeper than agreement or disagreement,
deeper than the cognitive level.
The differences are nearer the depth of the schematic level
than the cognitive level.
If I presume more than that, I'm really asking for it;
but the depth of this rift, this divide,
cries out for attention.

Yes, I will probably
endure another sleep-troubled night over this question.
But it is important
to stop papering over the cracks between
one person's viewpoint and another's.
I really do not want to drive a wedge between people here.
I'm trying to do something different than that.
But when deep fissures and cleavages between viewpoints
are papered over with superficial agreements,
well,
history is littered with the consequences.