Extend the previous post into the social and political spheres. Experience the zero tolerance of the religious right. Listen to the zero tolerance of our national leadership and hear the intellectual cowardice, the cheap reliance on oft-repeated platitutes and cant phrases. The thoughless reiteration of the speechmakers' art and the mindless reliance on the literal reading of the one, the only, the true Word of God. The damage being done is not so apparent as it is with children in school, but it is just as real.

Zero tolerance for others' experience of the Universe. Zero tolerance for other political points of view. Zero tolerance for other social systems and cultures. Morally bankrupt and politically corrupt.