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How successfully have you used facts and reason to change someone’s worldview?
Playing “Abstract” or “Prove” bounces right off norms, traditions, and social hierarchies — a reality check the cultural responses to the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically highlighted. Our conceptual order integrally supports our relational order in dialogue (and v.v.), but each utterly fails as a substitute. (For more on what actually alters the current relational order of things, see [Welcome to Cultureland](/essays/welcome-to-cultureland/index.md).)

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