Showing posts with label fanaticism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fanaticism. Show all posts

Saturday, 16 December 2017

Modesty: a strategy for responding to fanaticism


David Brooks writes "that the world is too complicated to fit into one political belief system" and this makes me feel better, as I know how fruitless arguments can be.  Even though the far right movement is toxic, compassion and empathy is the only way I can connect to the lost souls of an ideology that values money and power above life - and where people are left to struggle for whatever dignity they can scratch together.

Are arguments ever won without serious reflection on both sides?




Dear Tony ...Last night we celebrated your birthday

We went to the pub and ordered supper ... Karen, Simon, Lucas, Gabriel and myself it was a lovely evening although something was missing ...