"Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple." Beartown, Fredrik Backman, P. 273.
Somewhere it is written "let us love one another because love is of God..."
Timothy Snyder is a Yale University political scientist who studies authoritarianism and wrote a great short thread on what he calls “The Big Lie” about the election being stolen:
A Big Lie changes reality. To believe it, people must disbelieve their senses, distrust their fellow citizens, and live in a world of faith. A Big Lie demands conspiracy thinking, since all who doubt it are seen as traitors. A Big Lie undoes a society, since it divides citizens into believers and unbelievers. A Big Lie destroys democracy, since people who are convinced that nothing is true but the utterances of their leader ignore voting and its results. A Big Lie must bring violence, as it has. A Big Lie can never be told just by one person. Trump is the originator of this Big Lie, but it could never have flourished without his allies on Capitol Hill. Political futures now depend on this Big Lie. Sens. Hawley and Cruz are running for president on the basis of this Big Lie. There is a cure for the Big Lie. Our elected representatives should tell the truth, without dissimulation, about the results of the 2020 election. Politicians who do not tell the simple truth perpetuate the Big Lie, further an alternative reality, support conspiracy theories, weaken democracy, and foment violence far worse than that of January 6, 2021. The Daily Reformer, January 13, 2021.
"Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth." I John 3:18.
Meanwhile Trygve and I isolate comfortably in The Little House. Missing my stint teaching in Thailand I post pictures from there.
Takk for alt,
Al
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