IS IT ALWAYS RIGHT TO BE RIGHT?
A Parable written by Warren Schmidt and told by Orson Wells
(Won an Academy Award as the “Best Animated Short Subject” of 1971)
There once was a land where men were always right. They knew it and they were proud of it. It was a land where a man was proud to say, 'I am right and you are wrong," for those were words of conviction, of strength and of courage. No one was ever heard to say, "I may be wrong or you may be right," for those were words of weakness, uncertainty and cowardice. When differences arose between the people of this land . . . . . they looked not for truth but for confirmation of what they already believed. When differences arose between the old and the young, the old would say . . . . .
We have worked hard to build this great and prosperous land. We have built marvelous machines that take us wherever we want to go. That do our …