Just some food for thought. About a month ago David Brooks, in an opinion piece for the New York Times, offered some reflections on what he perceives as the burgeoning of a new cultural ethic of shame (as opposed to guilt). Thought I’d pass it along: “The Shame Culture.”
David Brooks on politics as a limited good
To fix politics, care more about other things. […] It should be said that people on the left and on the right who try to use politics to find their moral meaning are turning politics into an idol. Idolatry is what happens when people give ultimate allegiance to something that should be serving only an […]
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