If you can imagine two balls attached to one another by an elastic band, slowly pulled apart to the maximum tensile strength of the band, perfectly level to one another and released. Take a moment to picture the result in your mind. These slowly separated items will return to the center at a remarkably faster speed than when they were separated. And then....BOOM.

Now depending on the materials with which these balls are made, the result can vary widely. Rubber balls may bounce back and forth several times, while always returning to the middle for more until the momentum stops. Glass balls may shatter and the pieces strewn all about. Or, possibly if they are hardened metal, they will collide and simply remain unaltered. What can we make of all this?

If we take an honest look backward at the development of our current predicament until now, we may actually see the small increments of slow separation of our ideologies. We can see that as our tensile strength is tested to its limits, we become more and more rigid and intolerant. We have to decide that of which we are made. Shall we be maleable like the rubber balls? Shall we be immovable like the hardened metal? Or shall we shatter like glass?

Make no mistake. The snapback has begun, and we are accelerating toward each other connected by the ideological elastic band. Skirmishes have begun and violence is the natural end of the intolerant. It's the final move.

Do you fancy yourself steel, rubber or glass?