(0217) Greetings on this “inbetween” Monday or just after the last weekend for the year, as Xer Irina called it. This might be one of the most vital posts yet at this site, due to the heterogenerational and heterogender nature of its sources. More below. (0254)
To understand, look beyond your own cohort
… but this does not mean DEI in the least … and certainly not Wokery
It means from our own national, cultural, westwide values, plus to repeat what was said above … there’s value in the heterogenerational and in the heterogender. Plus a willingness to take on board issues which a different cohort is raising. Or even eccentrics within cohorts.
My first stop is Svali in 2000 in Toronto, a San Diego lady … to paraphrase her, when asked how Them can be stopped, she replied that these people are so arrogant, they make mistakes. Svali was a baddy turned goody because of newfound faith, she was possibly war generation, her “illumined” parents of Frankfurt School age.
And so to Roobeedoo and this exchange last evening and this morning:
Knowledge is power. (Francis Bacon)
But it needs more than just inter this and that dialogue … it needs ethics and a moral compass before even getting down to the details … it needs systemic integrity.