The Brick in the Conversation

[Taylor Baker]

For me, the weird thing is that, after opening up about a certain traumatic experience from fifteen years ago, I've grown to practically adore creative conflict. I get excited at the prospect, at least, of people disagreeing, debating, and then compromising. I tried to express this one time, but apparently I was promoting uniformity.

 

[Darkkin]

Finding compromise is not fostering uniformity. It is reaching a workable conclusion to a specific situation.

Objective disagreement in discussion is one of the best tools for out of the box thinking. Those ideas don't go away. They just might not be used in Situation W. There is a decided fault in that line of logic.

 

[Taylor Baker]

Exactly.

Here's another weird thing, though. I was once part of a group that enjoyed debating about certain differences relating to a creative interest. I almost felt right at home with them until everyone that wasn't a part of that started to label this group "toxic." They started calling these people toxic because we were having honest-to-God discussions about something we thought was important. It spread all over the internet to the point where we're pretty much that which cannot be named.