Very insightful as always. There’s a lot of wisdom to resisting the monolith narrative that the mass media and social media produces- over simplifying the matter to labels and dishonoring complexity and nuance has contributed to emotionalism getting the best of some of us. I’ve been meditating on the “slow to speak, slow to anger and quick to listen” wisdom of James. I’ll be the first to admit my ignorance of the deep and ancient roots of foreign ‘policy’ but as you mentioned before the historical rhythms play out and I am wondering if it really is that society/ people don’t learn from the past or is it a fault in the collective to be easily steered towards complacent. -AND isn’t this the time when the artists show up and start sounding the trumpet for us to pay attention and start re-examining ourselves and how our thinking is either as you mentioned life or death.
Very insightful as always. There’s a lot of wisdom to resisting the monolith narrative that the mass media and social media produces- over simplifying the matter to labels and dishonoring complexity and nuance has contributed to emotionalism getting the best of some of us. I’ve been meditating on the “slow to speak, slow to anger and quick to listen” wisdom of James. I’ll be the first to admit my ignorance of the deep and ancient roots of foreign ‘policy’ but as you mentioned before the historical rhythms play out and I am wondering if it really is that society/ people don’t learn from the past or is it a fault in the collective to be easily steered towards complacent. -AND isn’t this the time when the artists show up and start sounding the trumpet for us to pay attention and start re-examining ourselves and how our thinking is either as you mentioned life or death.