Thanks for this, Daniel. People often find themselves asking what they should be doing,about the mess the world is in. The older I get the more clearly it comes to me that I need to be doing exactly what I so often find myself wishing everyone else was doing. For me, that is the central message of your talk on Radical Love. Lately I have been seeing a lot of comments on social media to the effect of, "If you are planning to vote for DT, you are obviously rotten to the core, a racist, a fascist with no moral compass etc., and therefore no friend! of mine!" I am no stranger to this easily understandable sentiment, yet, while tempted, I find myself resisting it. While I am certain it is wholly appropriate to reject the whole MAGA movement with every bone in my body and to do whatever I feel myself called to do to prevent it from prevailing,, I can see no good outcomes resulting from viewing a third of the people in the country my enemies, including some otherwise very kind, generous neighbors and in-laws. In fact, love and like are not the same thing, though liking can pave the way for loving ,and I think the converse is also true. It really is a harrowing time to be alive, but here we are, and what we do about it might even make a difference in the outcome. I don't know if it will, but I need to believe that it is possible, and listening to you speak like this from your own heart gives me Hope.
Thanks for giving us this sweet tonic. I’ve been following your posts and have been struggling with all the feels as we get closer to the election. We all need to take a minute to focus on love ❤️
I wholly enjoyed the strong point I think the author is making, in that activism, to be aware, educated about the facts and acting up on them, needs to be grounded in an all encompassing Love for humanity and all of Life to be effective and successful.
We as a humanity aren’t there yet, I, as a human, although I’ve been trying for a very long time, am not there yet.
Still, we need to keep on trying as it is getting urgent.
A few things In the piece did tug at my ego for a reaction, like saying that the people who believe Musk and Thiel have hypertrophied intellects, a demeaning generalization of, i believe, a problem of a larger nature that encompasses not just intelligence, but emotional intelligence as well, that lack of an emotional dimension that seems to be a general trait of technocrats, as you mentioned at some point. A subject that I feel needs to be explored in more details and approached with more compassion.
Also, while talking about conflict and war, to avoid mentioning Netanyahu and the Government of Israel’s ever amplifying actions and reactions to the October 7th 2023 attacks, a very current and potent example, seemed awkwardly deliberate and imho took away some of the impact of the piece.
But as a whole, thank you for yet an other important piece.
Thanks for this, Daniel. People often find themselves asking what they should be doing,about the mess the world is in. The older I get the more clearly it comes to me that I need to be doing exactly what I so often find myself wishing everyone else was doing. For me, that is the central message of your talk on Radical Love. Lately I have been seeing a lot of comments on social media to the effect of, "If you are planning to vote for DT, you are obviously rotten to the core, a racist, a fascist with no moral compass etc., and therefore no friend! of mine!" I am no stranger to this easily understandable sentiment, yet, while tempted, I find myself resisting it. While I am certain it is wholly appropriate to reject the whole MAGA movement with every bone in my body and to do whatever I feel myself called to do to prevent it from prevailing,, I can see no good outcomes resulting from viewing a third of the people in the country my enemies, including some otherwise very kind, generous neighbors and in-laws. In fact, love and like are not the same thing, though liking can pave the way for loving ,and I think the converse is also true. It really is a harrowing time to be alive, but here we are, and what we do about it might even make a difference in the outcome. I don't know if it will, but I need to believe that it is possible, and listening to you speak like this from your own heart gives me Hope.
Beautiful comment, thank you
If you haven’t yet explored Valarie Kaur’s work on “revolutionary love,” check it out Daniel. I wrote about it here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jenniferbrowdy/p/if-ever-there-was-a-time-for-revolutionary?r=77vfa&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for giving us this sweet tonic. I’ve been following your posts and have been struggling with all the feels as we get closer to the election. We all need to take a minute to focus on love ❤️
I wholly enjoyed the strong point I think the author is making, in that activism, to be aware, educated about the facts and acting up on them, needs to be grounded in an all encompassing Love for humanity and all of Life to be effective and successful.
We as a humanity aren’t there yet, I, as a human, although I’ve been trying for a very long time, am not there yet.
Still, we need to keep on trying as it is getting urgent.
A few things In the piece did tug at my ego for a reaction, like saying that the people who believe Musk and Thiel have hypertrophied intellects, a demeaning generalization of, i believe, a problem of a larger nature that encompasses not just intelligence, but emotional intelligence as well, that lack of an emotional dimension that seems to be a general trait of technocrats, as you mentioned at some point. A subject that I feel needs to be explored in more details and approached with more compassion.
Also, while talking about conflict and war, to avoid mentioning Netanyahu and the Government of Israel’s ever amplifying actions and reactions to the October 7th 2023 attacks, a very current and potent example, seemed awkwardly deliberate and imho took away some of the impact of the piece.
But as a whole, thank you for yet an other important piece.
Thank you for audio! Have been hoping you would do this