Dear Ken,
Thanks for the pointer to the Contempt article. I especially liked her
comment:
'The only real defense against contempt is the consistent, strong and loud
insistence that each one of us be regarded as a full participant in our
shared political life, entitled to hold all others accountable for how we
are treated.ı
Iım not sure this works. If the business then becomes posturing in the
shared space then surely the contemptuous have won?
Yes, we can be reasonable and tolerant and respectful and mostly this is
what adults do in public. Adolescents, like Trump, know how easy it is to
disrupt these agreements.
In the Parliament of Fowls, the status of all the birds needs to be
re-established. That is, the virtues of each must be illustrated for all
to see which bird should sit on which roost. Donald Trump simply shits on
everyone and then asserts he must be the ROOSTer because no one else did
as much shitting as him. It worked for him when he was five and he hasnıt
been convinced their is any need to change.
To keep squawking ³Iım a sparrow, let me in² doesnıt really do much except
reinforce the dominance of the rooster.
Beyond all this, in the land of negative identity, imagination rules. Here
there are things to be seen rather than people to show their stuff.
Cheers
keith
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>It seems to me that Karen Stohrıs article in the New York Times offers an
>interesting and reflective approach to some of the same issues weıve seen
>at play here. You will find it at this URL:
>
>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/opinion/our-new-age-of-contempt.html
>
>Yours,
>
>Ken
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