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When I was younger and surrounded by seventies pop psych, one of its most frequent banners being that communication and truth would somehow make us all sisters and brothers. I got into arguments a lot, and even then the communication tools we were told were so good and so healthy just weren't working. How could "do your own thing" possible jive with "we are all in harmony!"? What was wrong with me? It took me years (being the proverbial late bloomer on all practical fronts) to realize that implied in all that was that we would all agree on everything. That just was not true. And not all the consciousness raising, group-explorations, "time out zons", etc etc were going to somehow make us all into totally-in-agreement harmonic beings.