The stories we tell
I just came across this post today, although it's an old one, from January of 2004, and it really struck me with some things I think everyone should think about. Pollard makes some really good points about today's cultural rhetoric and why it is debasing us as individuals and as a society. He goes on to make suggestions as to how this cultural rhetoric should change, and how our lives would then tell a different story. The things he says are much in line with a lot of the ideas of my favorite author and storyteller, Daniel Quinn (if you haven't, read Ishmael and After Dachau).
Things have to change.
posted by Victoria at 11:27 AM
4 Comments:
After Dachau. After I walked out of the place I felt like a dirty human.
Things change when we change how we think and how we act. Peace begins at home, right?
keep blogging, vic.
3:26 PM
Yes, peace does begin at home. I've been to Dachau twice, and each time was a very emotional experience - I don't know how it couldn't be. While I firmly believe in looking ahead to the future, people have to learn about and remember the past in order to learn about human nature and human mistake.
9:38 PM
I can't say how many times I have read Ishmael. No matter where I'm at, or what I'm thinking about reading that puts my head on straight - or at least facing a new direction.
Dom
http://dominic.ebacher.googlepages.com/
11:50 AM
P.S.
2C-E is my favorite.
11:51 AM
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