A bit of clarity, I hope

I am unclear how you arrive at "Intolerance and fear keep us from creating what’s possible" from Burke's closing words. Or how we are squandering the opportunities of the present day.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest that Burke is implying that. That was my interpretation of the fact that although in some respects the open society he so presciently saw is upon us, we are a long way away from balanced anarchy. I think we anarchists are squandering the opportunities of the present day because our fears—whether they be of losing in a “winner-take-all” environment or something else, particularly of succeeding—and our own intolerances—of individuals different from us in some cases, who aren’t pure enough for us, and who are doing freedom in ways different than the ones we prefer—greatly inhibit our ability to be exemplars of what Burke envisioned.

I do not fully agree with Burke and the "any view is correct" philosophy.

I didn’t hear anything that I parsed in that way, Jorge. Are you referring to this statement?:

[W]ith it we could operate on the basis that values and standards and ethics and facts and truth all depend on what your view of the world is—and that there may be as many views of that as there are people.

It seems to me that in the above, Burke is simply pointing out what reality is, and how far we are from it because much of our lives is spent in “coerced conformity”.

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