Thank you for this elegant exposition of the challenge of our decompensated age: the loss of truth as a value or even discoverable quality amid the great noise of society’s collective intellectual and moral collapse.
As you know, I have been ruminating among the very questions that you address, as events of our time take on the hallucinatory quality of a really bad dream that keeps morphing into ever more awful scenarios from which there appears to be no escape.
Where’s the door? What will get us the hell out of durance vile and show us the way back to sanity and mutual faith?
The best I can do is steer toward the light emitted by the brightest and bravest souls I can discover. Nowadays they include Sarah Kendzior, Heather Cox Richardson, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Reich, Thom Hartmann, and others — and, of course, our own Dr. BB.
So thank you for this. Your writing and your own dear self constitute one of my big reasons not to quit.
You’re welcome. I wish I had better answers. This one is nowhere near as swift or encompassing as one might wish, but it’s one of the few good ones I know!
The part you didn’t intend to write practically made me weep, it’s so deep and brilliant.
Thanks, S. It’s important stuff. Hard to look in the eye for many people, I think. And all the more important because of that.
Thank you for this!
You are very welcome, Becca.
Thank you for this elegant exposition of the challenge of our decompensated age: the loss of truth as a value or even discoverable quality amid the great noise of society’s collective intellectual and moral collapse.
As you know, I have been ruminating among the very questions that you address, as events of our time take on the hallucinatory quality of a really bad dream that keeps morphing into ever more awful scenarios from which there appears to be no escape.
Where’s the door? What will get us the hell out of durance vile and show us the way back to sanity and mutual faith?
The best I can do is steer toward the light emitted by the brightest and bravest souls I can discover. Nowadays they include Sarah Kendzior, Heather Cox Richardson, Rebecca Solnit, Robert Reich, Thom Hartmann, and others — and, of course, our own Dr. BB.
So thank you for this. Your writing and your own dear self constitute one of my big reasons not to quit.
Giant hugs and smooches — jstein
You’re welcome. I wish I had better answers. This one is nowhere near as swift or encompassing as one might wish, but it’s one of the few good ones I know!