George, that is one of your better posts; maybe even your best post. T.S. (whose posts I usually find informative and useful), on the other hand missed the mark with his post - at least with me and I suspect with most on this board.

I doubt that any regular poster on this board would agree with T.S.'s highly rationale approach to limiting the discourse only to those whose point of view is likely to minimize conflict and not create fires.

In my opinion, what T.S. seems to have missed is the fact that the "change agents" in our world live very close to or within those fires.

Without those "change agents" all of us would simply drift across the generations he speaks of and gradually homogenize our culture, our history and our heritage into some sort of pablum; all parts of which looked the same, smelled the same, felt the same, sounded the same and bore the same color - pretty dull stuff.

Bravo, George!