17 September

Divided means 2 things - a disagreement, and to share. They seem opposite meanings but I think are actually the same. Shared goods and shared understandings. I think debates like abortion are tough to resolve because we're actually not divided enough, we don't discuss major issues amongst ourselves much, leaving it all to public figures. And then we wonder why they can't resolve them. Brexit a perfect case too, a whole country paralysed. That paralysis can only be fixed by every person debating with their fellow people, dividing up the issues so that they're shared. Abortion can be divided and shared just as bread and money can. We need to break up or divide big issues like this into millions of individual pieces, for each person, to resolve them. To create a shared understanding of this idea. If we all just leave tough issues to politicians, the country will seem divided, because they can't resolve them. But really the problem is that we're nowhere near divided enough.