tolerance

i heard my precise philosophy described on radio today as the "harlot movement."  all religions are one, peace & understanding, nonviolence, exploration, tolerance.  yup, that's me.  exactly what i want.  so that characterization of course from an end times paulian group that supposedly is trying to take over the world, involved in the uganda anti-gay bill & involved in the rick perry campaign.  harlot religion.  gotta figure out how to describe harlotry to little kids.  they are warning their followers against exactly what i'm trying to describe.  so there it is.  only political activity could possibly defeat them politically, historically the prohibitionists have made it very hard to be in any way deviant.  we have to define our social relations to encompass a broad range of deviant behavior.  why?  because we will encounter new situations for which the standard set of behaviors will not lead to success meaning continuation of the life.  the deviants will have somewhere the relevant behavior that will be adaptive in the new situation so that ability to catch animals to eat will not be required for survival but ability to handle machinery will be.  at one point everyone was a hunter & the farmer was the deviant, the weirdo, the guy doing girls' work.  now the geek is the pinnacle, the obligate hunter considered a pathetic endangered relic.  the people who go "hey, what if we try this?" 

we harlots will tolerate the non-tolerators but they won't tolerate us.  if they come to power they will attempt to repress any of us that they can recognize.  there are a lot more of us than there are them.  they are organized we are not. 

we have to define ourselves beyond our specialty, whatever that happens to be.  what we all are is tolerant, people are allowed to be different.  think about this: criminal violence aside are you willing to let other people be different from you?  then you are tolerant, that is your approach, as opposed, say, to enforced conformity.  i submit this is the fundamental political/social divide.  organize around the principle of tolerance and we will find the approach that we can all agree on.