The Classical Reform Mystic

We have enough divisions in our society.  Enough labels.  Each historical event, each natural or biological disaster, each news cycle, each discovery of another piece of reality, of human behavior, or systemic wrongs, even each new discovery of the ruins of ancient civilizations, seems to create more warring factions, turning enemies into mortal enemies, acquaintances into enemies, friends into acquaintances (or straight to enemies), and close friends into those occasional-awkward-beer-after-work friends who don't want to admit that they don't really feel close to us anymore and don't want to have an out-loud fight about why that is (especially when it's to do with politics or religion), but also don't want to hurt each other's feelings.  (Those are the absolute worst, just saying.) And yet, taxonomies have some utility.  By describing the world around us, we can better understand it, and more importantly, we can have a better fighting chance of successf...