Coherent data and support sought. You understand and accept different experiences and perspectives. Dichotomous right-wrong thinking evolves. Dualism modified At the lowest levels of Perry s hierarchy, you tend to think in absolute categories. Agency is external, known to authorities.
Alternative views create discomfort and confusion.
Note that this feeling can be a stimulus for your own growth. If you cannot see a simple answer, if, for example, the existence of nuclear power raises very complex issues in this modern and increasingly interdependent world, then dualistic thinking probably won t work. This alone can foster greater openness, especially to ideas and experiences different from your own. The problem arises, however, when it stops there, when every idea is equally valid, when one person s aggressiveness is tolerated even though others are getting hurt. In Savage Dreams, you get some sense of the origins of the nuclear issues, how physicists tried to unravel the mysteries of the atom, how opposition built once the bomb was developed and dropped, how the military and police staked out their defense of public safety.