... and if you're not, are you OK with that? We live in a time of instant access to information, instant communication ~ and concurrently, a seeming accretion of extreme and fundamentalist religiosity (as typified by a bumper sticker I once saw that read, "The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it") and politics. Both speak to our discomfort with uncertainty and the unknown. We humans dislike ambiguity, says Jamie Holmes, a Future Tense Fellow at New America and author of Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing. In this interview, Holmes describes the work being done in the field and the evolving theories that have emerged from it (story, link to test evaluating need for closure [I am, apparently, a "Master of Ambiguity"!]): http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/the-benefits-of-getting-comfortable-with-uncertainty/409807/
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