I don't know if you've noticed, but the professional Left* loves thinking in terms of binaries: black and white, male and female, rich and poor, Left and Right. For the media, it means easy headlines: find the Black Hats, and you've got your story. Likewise for Hollywood: drama depends on conflict, and what better conflict is there than that between the forces of Good and the forces of Evil? Academics tend to take a little more prodding before they will admit to thinking in such reductive terms, but get them talking about power and oppression and the categories will become clear. "We" (the speakers) are necessarily the Good Guys. "They" (those who think wrongly about sex, race, and gender) are the Bad Guys. All the Good Guys are on the side of the Oppressed (blacks, women, the poor); all the Bad Guys are on the side of the Powerful (whites, males, rich). It does not matter that the categories make no historical sense, whether because they
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ReplyDeleteone of my favorite blogs and one that has inspired other blogs is copenhagencyclechic ... bicycling is something I enjoy. I often find my own solacment in bicycling..I suppose my own personalized relationship with God in my own way.
Thank you for the lovely photos.
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On the other hand, this is something my son (age 12) can teach me, and this is a great gift. But then, of course, I suppose online tutorials won't drop sock monkeys on your head. :)
ReplyDelete...maybe this all very simply means that God is everywhere where we want God to be, in the paintings as well as in the artists who made them, in the real flower and in the skill required to make the painted one, in the burning candle and in the person who takes time out to light one, in the churches and on the streets, and in the sock and the child who is at play ... if we want to see God (Christian or other, no matter) we can and do. PS: Very beautiful pictures indeed.
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