All It Cost Was The Center

 Personal experience over the past four decades has made a somewhat disturbing cultural reality very evident.

And that is that there is no respect for the center. 

By the center I mean a point wherein two diametrically opposed sides of an argument can agree to meet. 

It is no longer considered polite, or reasonable, or intelligent, to settle a disagreement of any sort. These days one must absolutely win the argument outright, no compromise, no quarter, no middle ground.

Everyone has to be right. Everyone has to have it their way, or no way. 

People have lost sight of the gray, every side of every issue has become black and white. 

Which just plain sucks.