The basic fault lines today are 

not between people with different beliefs 

but between people who hold these beliefs 

with an element of uncertainty 

and people who hold these beliefs 

with a pretence of certitude.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy

 — which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

The past is malleable and flexible, 

changing as our recollection 

interprets and re-explains 

what has happened.