People who can’t let go of the past need a story to explain why today’s world doesn’t work for them. The convenient answer is: it’s you.
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Coffee table Christianity
This has bugged me since I was a teenager. The tendency to social Christianity – claiming it as a badge of social respectability, especially when it’s obviously hollow. I have an over-developed sense of integrity, and as a young man it caused me great stress that I couldn’t call myself a Christian while my upbringing […]
The control reaction driving the world
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don’t. – Robert Benchley There are a zillion ways to classify people, and one of the most important is by mental elasticity. Most of us like to know what’s what. If […]
Tribalism – shielding ourselves from an inconvenient world
This is so common these days. People use labels as a form of angry dismissal. ‘You remainers, liberals, leftists, feminists…’ It’s taking refuge in a tribe, using it as a structure to make sense of a world that stretches and inflames us. Tribes can be good, but not when they’re at war with the Other. […]