This internal discord made Italy a prey to invading foreigners, Spanish, French, and German.
If anything, internal discord made for reticence rather than assertion on the part of their foreign policy elites.
The welfare state, Vietnam, and continuing racial discord make no sense given permanent, rocketing economic growth, which we have only gotten in spaces over the past fifty some years.
Politics is still necessarily personal and clan-based; antipathy to fitnah (social discord and strife) makes it hard to envisage a peaceful institutionalisation of adversarial politics.
But there is, nonetheless, a scrappiness and imbalance to the work, a spiritual discord that makes it difficult to emulate.
Though both "Devil's Fire" and Uncle Buddy have pedantic streaks, Mr. Burnett evokes a discord that makes sense, touching on the schism between generations.
Theologians have defined sin as "apartness from God," but I think that sin, in practical terms, is a lot like the jarring, jangling wrongness of the wrongly hit baseball or mis-stomped acorn — a kind of teeth-grinding, bone-deep discord that makes the very keelson of the universe vibrate off key.
Does it not make sense to create conflict and discord to make them fight among each other?
Passive, 'rubber-stamping' NEDs would themselves make little use of diagnostic behaviour and option-appraisal but they, and NEDs who wished to avoid discord, would make much use of supportive behaviours.
It's even possible that cultural discord could make hardworking, entrepreneurial people work less hard.
