Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
How do you feel when you read these words?
Many in our world might agree with them.
Or then again, many in our world will feel suspicious.
After all, the world is really rather chaotic nowadays, isn’t it?
And in such a time, one certainly doesn’t have to admire Marx (I know I don’t!) to agree with him that ‘all that is solid melts into air.’
Or again, you don’t have to love Yeats (although many of us most certainly do) to feel a certain dark foreboding as you bring to mind once more his ever-unsettling refrain: