I recently read Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas
, and found it not only thought-provoking but also very much aligned with my own thinking.
Like many others, I have come to accept that we human beings are not purely rational creatures. We are emotional, tribal, and biased.
Evolution has made us who we are; it probably couldn’t have turned out very differently. These are not defects to be corrected. They are part of what it means to be human.
We need to acknowledge this reality and recognize that we are unlikely to educate ourselves out of these tendencies. They are deeply woven into who we are.
What we can do is come together to think together. Through conversation, we can challenge our assumptions, expose our blind spots, and mitigate some of our worst tendencies.
To me, that is one of the great strengths of conversation. Not that it makes us perfect, but that it helps compensate for the limitations we all carry as individuals.
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