ABSTRACT
This book is about the everlasting tension between diversity and reconciliation. Time and again we have seen that differences contain the seeds of creativity, but the route to reconciliation is complex and anxiety prone. Saul (1997, p. 299) talks about societal development in the following terms:
[It] is a humanist movement seeking continual reform in order to improve the life of the community. This does include economic wellbeing, but only as a result of the more important elementsservice of the public good, aggressive responsible individualism and culture… In the practical terms of everyday life, culture is not about agreement, but about questioning. In other words, culture is not about solidarity, but about discussion and disagreements.
