i just watched dr. ponesse's "farewell lecture," and read the brownstone link. i highly recommend both to anyone who has yet to experience them.
one of my ways of, for lack of a better phrase, making the public aware of the counter-narrative was getting a pile of the covid wars: hero stickers to put on public property. i neglected to include dr. ponesse in the original purchase, and was happy to find her sticker when i looked again. let's just say she will be well represented once the next shipment arrives!
you did pick out some choice quotes from her presentation, but here is one i like:
Do we tell the story that our individual lives don’t matter, that we are expendable for the sake of the greater good, that technology will purify us, that if only we elect the right leaders, all our problems will be solved?
Or do we tell a better story? A story according to which our leaders are just a reflection of ourselves, that making ourselves wiser and stronger and more virtuous will always be better than relying on the state to make us healthy, safe and good, a story according to which we keep reaching for what we all deeply crave: meaning, mattering, and connecting with the humanity in others. This, I think, is a much more compelling story and the one we need to tell as we continue to fight.
you canucks have been a bright spot these last few years. you've taught us americans a lot about the freedom we blather on about.
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Re: A Brilliant Piece by a Lioness of Canadian Freedom
Date: 2022-12-10 05:03 am (UTC)i just watched dr. ponesse's "farewell lecture," and read the brownstone link. i highly recommend both to anyone who has yet to experience them.
one of my ways of, for lack of a better phrase, making the public aware of the counter-narrative was getting a pile of the covid wars: hero stickers to put on public property. i neglected to include dr. ponesse in the original purchase, and was happy to find her sticker when i looked again. let's just say she will be well represented once the next shipment arrives!
you did pick out some choice quotes from her presentation, but here is one i like:
Do we tell the story that our individual lives don’t matter, that we are expendable for the sake of the greater good, that technology will purify us, that if only we elect the right leaders, all our problems will be solved?
Or do we tell a better story? A story according to which our leaders are just a reflection of ourselves, that making ourselves wiser and stronger and more virtuous will always be better than relying on the state to make us healthy, safe and good, a story according to which we keep reaching for what we all deeply crave: meaning, mattering, and connecting with the humanity in others. This, I think, is a much more compelling story and the one we need to tell as we continue to fight.
you canucks have been a bright spot these last few years. you've taught us americans a lot about the freedom we blather on about.
i thank you all.