Your truth is yours and some others who agree with you; the truth of others is theirs and others who agree with them. You are each true to your own vision.
Difference of opinion is not a right or wrong issue unless people are so small minded that they cannot understand the world is composed of 7.5+ billion people with their own ideas about almost everything. Some of it may stem from stubbornness, or from feeling threatened by new ideas, or from fear of change and loss, or from small imaginations , , , or no imaginations.
Thank God for differences and diversity. I love Chris Pine's work as Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the "alternate reality" and I loved William Shatner's Kirk in the original series. They have both defined a Jim Kirk for the places in time and space that they occupy, fiction though it all is.
For some of us, it may be a bit more of a life experience that for many others. It certainly was for me, which when I speak of my adventures as a fan in uniform or costume no one has ever mocked me. There is always laughter (since I am seen a very serious) and there is always a kind of envy from enjoying the play involved. Our club has about 25 chapters and during the mid70s through the early to mid80s, the club was the largest in the US. Many of our people because involved in the space program in various ways; some went into film making, writing, and other creative forms of expression. There was plenty of disagreement as well as unity.
Life and fiction does not need to be one way or the other way because fiction and real life seeks the "and" as true meaning: this idea is great and that way is great and the other path is great and many more ways that are great. Life and fiction needs difference and diversity to grow. It is elemental.
In the decades since the original series brought Star Trek to this planet and changed the courses of millions of lives, the world has become very small due to satellites watching and listening and our telephones being monitored, etc. One thing (among others) that we still control - if we will - is our own attitude of accepting other people's opinions as valid for them even if it differs from own own.
The original Kirk learned the value of different ideas and choices from listening to Spock and McCoy. All three were brilliant men in their own areas of expertise, so even when Jim had made a decision he would still ask their opinions because he tended to act from his heart and gut. After causing himself and his crew unnecessary challenges, he learned that other may have a wisdom that would give his ideas greater strength or direction. The alternate Kirk is learning similar lessons in different time and space.
Diversity can strengthen us and the sameness can choke us. That was the intense lesson that Kirk and Krall fought about in the end of Star Trek Beyond.
Lessons for life and fiction.
A Checkered Life speaks of myriad diverse adventures being the rewards of endless curiosity.
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