Politics, Friendship, and the Search for Meaning

Marital love, like friendship, is formed gradually over the course of engaging in it. It does not depend essentially on initial emotions. Certainly, both marital love and friendship involve deep emotions, but these stem less from first encounters than from the buildup of affection over time. Love and friendship do not emerge out of nowhere; neither... See more

Those who understand what real friendship is, and what it ultimately foreshadows, will place less value in politics because they will have better things to do. They will know through experience where their deepest longings are most fully satisfied.

To lose a friendship over politics suggests that something is deeply disordered in our souls.