Diversity (potentially) provides balance; diversity with discernment (likely) provides a balanced positive

This morning I had some interesting viewing: the replay version of the following: 

• “Differing Points of View - Midday With Rev Don”   https://www.youtube.com/live/D5Rx3hS75mQ     
  

The “Midday with Rev Don” series is quite interesting, although as it is 5am local time for me, I often miss the live versions. 

This video was one of those I watched afterwards, and was very interesting - well worth a look, Dear Reader. 

As discussed in the video, diversity of viewpoints has benefits. These include avoiding mistakes, better performance/outcomes, adaptation to change, and learning. 

As Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. put it (with an update), “Every now and then a [hu]man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions”.

In addition, as I’ve pointed out on my main blog, diversity generally has evolutionary benefits - in particular, options for when things change (such as oxygen breathing organisms for situations when cyanobacteria create an atmosphere with oxygen, or mammals for when asteroids wipe out larger dinosaurs, ... ). 

In terms of ideas and thinking and personal/spiritual growth, the same principle, in my opinion, applies - we have options should something prove to be of no benefit. 

However, and this is more important I suspect, we can provide a range of choices so people can find something that best suits them. 

If I was to use sport as an example, some people may be best suited for long distance running, others for team sports, and yet others for things like chess (which, fortunately for me, was an option at the high school I went - one that I was extremely bad at ... although I also talked them into having sailing).

So the outcomes of diversity in the examples I’ve just given include not being caught in a dead end, being able to adapt to change, being able to provide a nuanced range of choices to better suit those using those choices. 

I could, perhaps, describe that as having a good balance of options/choice/diversity. 

In the cut down version I used for the title of this post, “diversity (potentially) provides balance”. 

However, some options/choices are already known to be of no benefit - and those options include political extremes such as fascism, anything based on or including bigotry, and so on. 

Including those options would be including destructive options in the mix - options that unbalance the mix of options, or are, for want of a better term, “negative”. 

Options that stop the mix being a balanced positive mix. 

So ... use our discernment - our skills, knowledge, and experience - to remove known problems, which enables the diversity to be refined into a mix that will be all - or at least predominantly - options that have potential value/benefit. 

In other words, “diversity with discernment (likely) provides a balanced positive”.

 

This is not my best phrasing, but it’s currently 35°C here, 11°C above average for this time of the year, and ,even with fans, on the fourth day of this heatwave, not particularly conducive to good thinking/writing. Ah well, I can always come back and edit it if I come up with something better.

Blessed Be

Gnwmythr (Kayleen), ShrineKeeper 

4^th February, 2025

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