Love this take, Ed! In one of my favorite classes in college (Fundamental Debates on the Common Good) we shared the simple example of a family dinner as a common good. It's impossible to truly enjoy a family dinner if your parent, kid, or sibling is sick with no appetite. You want to enjoy it with them, because it is better enjoyed together.
We're reaching a point in this country where enough of us are feeling sick to our stomachs at the level of inequality and injustice. I think about driving or walking past homeless folks on my way to work, reckoning with systemic racism, watching the current horror in Washington. There has got to be a new way to tap into this morality (not wokeness eliciting guilt) that calls upon us to be better FOR one another, and demand better of ourselves and for ourselves.
Love this take, Ed! In one of my favorite classes in college (Fundamental Debates on the Common Good) we shared the simple example of a family dinner as a common good. It's impossible to truly enjoy a family dinner if your parent, kid, or sibling is sick with no appetite. You want to enjoy it with them, because it is better enjoyed together.
We're reaching a point in this country where enough of us are feeling sick to our stomachs at the level of inequality and injustice. I think about driving or walking past homeless folks on my way to work, reckoning with systemic racism, watching the current horror in Washington. There has got to be a new way to tap into this morality (not wokeness eliciting guilt) that calls upon us to be better FOR one another, and demand better of ourselves and for ourselves.