How Do We Know What We're Saying?

"We've used, we've developed our own doctrine and we use that as a cudgel," he says. "It ends up limiting us and narrowing the way in which we permit ourselves to confront what is happening" We're willing to accept certain narratives as long as they don't challenge our core understanding of reality, right? He adds: "In fact, maybe we should fight the impulse to try to understand it as our first reaction"