I’m poking fun, but there is a serious point here: If we get offended by someone wishing us well on a day or week that is important to them even if it isn’t to us, how then are we supposed to have the actual difficult conversations needed to bridge the gaps in our society? It is just foolishness.
It could be said of every mentor I have ever had that “he did not suffer fools.” This didn’t mean that one could not disagree with them, but one had better have his facts straight and a logical argument or he was going to be put in his place. One of my bosses in particular…
What does Auschwitz have to do with Facebook? People who forget their history are doomed to repeat it. The lesson we should learn from the horrors of Auschwitz is that people can be convinced to do unspeakable things. People don’t just wake up one morning and decide to be evil; they have to be moved slowly but steadily in that direction.
This is not about Joe Biden, it is about our culture. We now care more about perception than we do about reality. Biden is simply a living example of what a lifetime of politics does to one’s soul. Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks and 14 years after the introduction of the iPhone, our entire culture is consumed with perception.
A recent incident with our pre-teen daughter reminded me of a glaring problem in our culture today: We have lost the ability to communicate.
