In clashes of culture ...... The double speak of politics ....
In clashes of culture, in clashes of idea, in clashes of venality, authoritarianism is a comfort to many.
Messy worlds always call for the rise and hope of the authoritarian. Struggles demand order and order comes only when stasis can be reached by some means of an acceptable balance of interests in a given society. Chaos, threats to established mores, distrust of present power structure, legitimacy of present power structures, aims of present power structures all push for action, retaliation, desired order flowing from desired necessary power.
All power vacuums invite challenges. Systems who can be open to challenge are wary of any openings to shared power or diminished power. Conflict breeds lack of order, danger.
Be it here at home, be it in a different world, authoritarianism is always lurking, is always an antidote to uncertainty, lack of acceptable structure.
In clashes of culture, in clashes of idea, in clashes of venality, authoritarianism is a comfort to many.
The double speak of politics, the distrust of meaning ....
There seems to be little understanding of Western "secular" values amongst those who consider freedom of speech a ploy and a tool to diminish and keep down those that they envision the West seeing as of a lesser bent.
The "secular" values of liberal societies and the traditions and juris prudence they uphold are not envisioned as "holy" values by those who cannot accept them or the principles upon which they rest. By some of the West as well.
Conversations on clashes of cultures need be clear upon the divisions, the questions, the need for the mutual respect of those, if any, of good will. Clarifications and understandings of principle, modes of survival, colors of souls and the choosing to see that which unopened minds cannot may stumble into a path to follow.
The double speak of politics, the distrust of meaning, views as dialog of warfare, threats to ordered worlds all hinder conflict resolution.
Any reason flows from acceptable premise.