Advice Unsolicited | Ignore Your Social Circle
In this current McCarthyist state we’re playing around in, when met with your self-determined opinion (as opposed to following some strident party line) your social circle will likely turn to hyperbole and scorched earth rhetoric to both shame you into falling in line or paint the podcaster you listen to as evil.
Advice Unsolicited | Offense Is Definitely a Choice
First things first. It is and has always been a choice to take offense or not.
ALWAYS.
Your aunt has chosen to not be offended by a word that has become weapon used. You have chosen to be offended. Likewise, your aunt has chosen to be offended by being lectured and you choose to be offended that she is offended by your lecturing.
Advice Unsolicited | It’s OK to Pretend Because Everyone is a Fraud
We are currently in an epic defined by people pretending to be someone they are not.
Advice Unsolicited | STAY AWAY FROM THE HOUSE!
The movies are fiction. Most of us know and accept this. While they are fiction, many can be instructive in our own non-fiction lives…
Advice Unsolicited | Misinterpreting Rowling
I want to let my youngest enjoy the world of Harry Potter without supporting a bigot and disappointing my oldest.
Anxiety is the thing that’s ripped our country apart. It has divided us, caused us to fear and hate those who think and live differently than us, and even caused us to hate those who only slightly disagree with us. It has led to panic and overreaction. And I worry that American Anxiety is only going to exacerbate the social and political divide in this country to the point that there is no coming back.