text: Peter Steinfels speaks to the hazard of one-line thinking, reviewing "The Fractured Republic: Renewing America's Social Contract in the Age of Individualism" COMMONWEAL, pp. 29-32, 10/21/2016
  "Polytheism and monotheism both propose their logic which both derive from real-life experience in nature...
  "the commanding heights of the culture are no more controlled by the cultural Left than by the Right. The culture will continue to be a terrain of sometimes overlapping, sometimes contending moral minorities, a landscape not of a simple culture war but of multiple subcultures and subculture wars".
  Every person is born with an original version of history imprinted in her/ his DNA, which is deep-down responsive to individual experience. Learning happens in individual experience; newness of experience imprints in individual and collective consciousness. In a sense, we are individually a subculture to one another.