Faith, Freedom, Family. All the things I believe in building our moral structure. I might even go so far as to say I want my candidates to put weight on all of those, but I draw the line when the three "F's" become a campaign slogan or metaphor, in the cases of many candidates running for various legislative offices who are preparing to run on a ‘family values’ platform for election in 2022.
Agenda is already plural. Religious fundamentalism has been replaced by politically correct fundamentalism. It results in the same thing, people are afraid to open their mouths and speak their minds openly which is really the only way to resolve problems. By making people fearful by destroying lives, reputations and careers as a consequence of free speech we can not achieve any results. The old saying is to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I want to know what everyone is thinking so maybe I can understand their argument better. How else can I disavow them of an illogical notion? Or maybe that shouldn’t even be my goal. The basic model of social media has been to unleash the mob mentality like the sharks and jets, it depends which side has more participants on the playground but ultimately nobody changes their mind. It’s a brawl. It’s primitive. Larry David did something remarkable by featuring a clansman who’s costume needed dry cleaning. It brought things to a human level. Pigeon holing makes it easy to dismiss your enemies but is it not better to try to really hear people out and discover what fuels hate (which rages on both side). I think we all have more in common than we think. But to bring this around, fundamentalism is what immigrants were trying to escape, that and massive violence throughout the world. Now we have a new fundamentalism and we should be just as critical and suspicious as we have traditionally been of those who feel they are always right.
Agenda is already plural. Religious fundamentalism has been replaced by politically correct fundamentalism. It results in the same thing, people are afraid to open their mouths and speak their minds openly which is really the only way to resolve problems. By making people fearful by destroying lives, reputations and careers as a consequence of free speech we can not achieve any results. The old saying is to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I want to know what everyone is thinking so maybe I can understand their argument better. How else can I disavow them of an illogical notion? Or maybe that shouldn’t even be my goal. The basic model of social media has been to unleash the mob mentality like the sharks and jets, it depends which side has more participants on the playground but ultimately nobody changes their mind. It’s a brawl. It’s primitive. Larry David did something remarkable by featuring a clansman who’s costume needed dry cleaning. It brought things to a human level. Pigeon holing makes it easy to dismiss your enemies but is it not better to try to really hear people out and discover what fuels hate (which rages on both side). I think we all have more in common than we think. But to bring this around, fundamentalism is what immigrants were trying to escape, that and massive violence throughout the world. Now we have a new fundamentalism and we should be just as critical and suspicious as we have traditionally been of those who feel they are always right.
Well said!
Yes, Barry.
very good. Getting a warning banner on top of the email ! Strange
very strange. then again, i AM very strange, Mike