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Adam Gussow's avatar

Superb essay. Thoughts to sleep on, and I'm grateful for them.

French and Rufo are both warriors, or ex-warriors, and they're men who bring a religious sensibility to what they do, each in his own way. In their family lives, they've certainly lived out MLK's creed to create blended tribes organized around the content of character rather than color of skin. To that extent, they're more Brotherhood of Zion than Matrix. I like them both, and value their contributions to the conversation.

Immediately after writing those words, I'm tempted to say "But...." and create an opposition between them, a hierarchy of true enlightenment that places one above the other. What I appreciate so much about your essay is that it brushes my elbow with the lightest touch and says, "Not needed." It says, "What would happen if you refused to judge and simply sat with your need to do that, rather than imposing it on them?"

Such a hard thing--to do that!

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Mark Monday's avatar

"we as a species didn’t always do this, before we were hunger-gatherers it was commonplace for us to see each and every individual as a unique, unrepeatable being"

Could you speak more on this?

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