Every time I think I’m done with social media, I find a pearl that keeps me going back. Like this one, which is full of true wisdom:
My position on argumentation is often sourced from a phrase I read in a Japanese book:
'Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.'
— Kazuki Yamada (@ikzauk) February 7, 2018
My latest piece at OSV, wherein I presume to solve — or at least offer one sort of solution toward — the ongoing social chaos situation in the world — yes, the whole world — Read more…
Most people now living have never seen the level of pageantry that will be coming out of England over the next two weeks, and again when Charles III is crowned in a year. It surpasses, Read more…
The funerals are beginning. We are seeing gut-churning images of parents, siblings, playmates, a whole community in grief. We’ve gasped and cried our way through such footage and photographs before, of course. And there is Read more…
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If in all things you seek sexism and oppression, doubtless you will find it – The Anchoress · February 22, 2018 at 6:31 pm
[…] prefer to utterly destroy others rather than allowing them to retain a bit of their own dignity. We see it on social media all the time — the merciless goading of others and the need to lord it over someone who has […]