It is so confusing to see the path that we as a world, as a people are on. Daily we are surrounded by more people doing good things and daily we see from a distance and sometimes so close the loss of the moral compass by others and how this effects the way in which the world moves and responds. How the world is affected by individual actions we don’t really know but we do know there is a collective effect on the culture. Without optimism we can not survive.
Isn't it rather that there are competing narratives which are each strongly supported by parts of the citizenry, and which are perceived as being mutually exclusive? That seems to me to be true of both the US and Israel at present. Which is certainly not a good place for a country to be in, especially when the factions can't see any longer what they might have in common. Turning entrenched narratives around worked in Northern Ireland peace process, but only after only much bloodshed, with the dedication of political leaders on all sides, a LOT of outside support, and probably also because it is a tiny polity in terms of geography and population size.
It is so confusing to see the path that we as a world, as a people are on. Daily we are surrounded by more people doing good things and daily we see from a distance and sometimes so close the loss of the moral compass by others and how this effects the way in which the world moves and responds. How the world is affected by individual actions we don’t really know but we do know there is a collective effect on the culture. Without optimism we can not survive.
Isn't it rather that there are competing narratives which are each strongly supported by parts of the citizenry, and which are perceived as being mutually exclusive? That seems to me to be true of both the US and Israel at present. Which is certainly not a good place for a country to be in, especially when the factions can't see any longer what they might have in common. Turning entrenched narratives around worked in Northern Ireland peace process, but only after only much bloodshed, with the dedication of political leaders on all sides, a LOT of outside support, and probably also because it is a tiny polity in terms of geography and population size.