Occam Grows a Beard David W. Jardine This is the fight that we wage, because America is not natural. Natural is tribal. We're fighting against thousands of years of human history. (Stewart, 2016) In every lexicon, tolerance signifies the limits on what foreign, erroneous, objectionable or dangerous element can be allowed to cohabit with the host without destroying the host — whether the entity at issue is truth, structural soundness, health, community, or an organism. The very invocation of tolerance . . . indicates that something contaminating or dangerous is at hand. Tolerance appears, then, as a mode of incorporating and regulating the presence of the threatening Other within. (Brown 2006, p. 27)