The value of vagueness

Overall, I deeply and profoundly think we (meaning the whole planet) take ourselves TOO SERIOUSLY and that is why these lines about Deleuze's thought from John Rajchman's book The Deleuze Connections have struck me so strongly:

"Our lives must be indefinite or vague enough to include such potential for other worlds of predications or individualizations, and so enter into complications with others that are never fully 'explicated.' The vagueness of 'a life' is thus not a deficiency to be corrected, but rather a resource or reserve of other possibilities, our connections.

It appears to me that the deeply felt need to be right, to hold on to one's own identified world view without interest in another's perspective is one of the foundational causes of so much tragedy and suffering in our world today. I think this concept of "vaugeness" can help loosen the hold of righteousness and fundamentalism.