Perhaps it’s helpful to recall that every ideology ever created has inevitably sub-divided in to competing (sometimes warring) internal factions. The universal nature of this phenomena suggests that the source of this division and conflict process is that which all philosophies and philosophers have in common, what we’re all made of psychologically, thought.
Point being, there is no way to edit EA or any other collection of ideas so as to remove division and conflict, because division and conflict are built in to the human condition at such a fundamental level as to be incurable.
Thus, new arrivals to EA (such as myself) are perhaps best advised that EA, like all human endeavors, is a big mess that will never be fully straightened out. If such realism is presented right from the start, perhaps it can to some degree serve as an antidote to cynicism.
Perhaps it’s helpful to recall that every ideology ever created has inevitably sub-divided in to competing (sometimes warring) internal factions. The universal nature of this phenomena suggests that the source of this division and conflict process is that which all philosophies and philosophers have in common, what we’re all made of psychologically, thought.
Point being, there is no way to edit EA or any other collection of ideas so as to remove division and conflict, because division and conflict are built in to the human condition at such a fundamental level as to be incurable.
Thus, new arrivals to EA (such as myself) are perhaps best advised that EA, like all human endeavors, is a big mess that will never be fully straightened out. If such realism is presented right from the start, perhaps it can to some degree serve as an antidote to cynicism.