Developing the Capacity to Birth Something New

In your book, The Moral Imagination, you speak of the critical importance of developing a capacity to perceive things beyond and at a deeper level that what initially meets the eye, as well as a capacity to give birth to something new that in its birthing changes the world and the way we see things. Since writing this in 2005, has your thinking about the need for moral imagination shifted, changed, or perhaps deepened over the years?

If anything, my thinking has deepened. We are living through a period of growing polarization – both socially and ideologically – and the guidelines for dealing with this seem to get lost. We revert back so strongly to our sense of tribe or a sort of group viewpoint that looks at the world with a pre-existing narrative that wants to explain what we see by way of a single understanding that often does not attend to the complexity around us…