You make a very good point here....we need good stories to hold a our society together. Since about 1960ish we in the West have fixated on a bad story: "Big bad nasty whitey has failed to give 'social justice' to all the people in the world that we don't care about" But there has been a get-out. You can be part of a Good Story....even if…
You make a very good point here....we need good stories to hold a our society together. Since about 1960ish we in the West have fixated on a bad story: "Big bad nasty whitey has failed to give 'social justice' to all the people in the world that we don't care about" But there has been a get-out. You can be part of a Good Story....even if you're white....even if you're a man....even if you're a heterosexual. All you have to do is bad-mouth your fellow white peers....and you too can feel good about yourself.
Who is sick to the back teeth of this sixty-year old story? Here's my good story for what it's worth: "What good people do is NOTICE REALITY". (This is what Little Red Riding Hood should have done.) "Good people always make close observation of reality, notice who's a lamb and who's a wolf..... and notice that there are, and always will be, honesty and self delusion, real and faux expressions of generosity of spirit, bullies dressed up as champions of liberty...wise men and fools in other words." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/are-we-making-progress
You make a very good point here....we need good stories to hold a our society together. Since about 1960ish we in the West have fixated on a bad story: "Big bad nasty whitey has failed to give 'social justice' to all the people in the world that we don't care about" But there has been a get-out. You can be part of a Good Story....even if you're white....even if you're a man....even if you're a heterosexual. All you have to do is bad-mouth your fellow white peers....and you too can feel good about yourself.
Who is sick to the back teeth of this sixty-year old story? Here's my good story for what it's worth: "What good people do is NOTICE REALITY". (This is what Little Red Riding Hood should have done.) "Good people always make close observation of reality, notice who's a lamb and who's a wolf..... and notice that there are, and always will be, honesty and self delusion, real and faux expressions of generosity of spirit, bullies dressed up as champions of liberty...wise men and fools in other words." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/are-we-making-progress