Mrs. Crowhill and I have been going to trivia at a local brewpub for several months now. It started when some of my kids were in town, and over time the group has changed. My kids have all moved away, but Pigweed and a classics professor friend recently joined us, so the team has continued. We do decently well, each bringing a little expertise in different areas. <\/p>\n
The bartender has become a good friend and treats us like family. We trade stories about our kids and whatnot. <\/p>\n
I don’t have the foggiest notion of her politics. Not even the slightest. <\/p>\n
From my perspective, her political views wouldn’t change anything. I like her, and that’s all there is to it. If she holds to some crazy political views — or even not crazy, just different than mine — then that would be an amusing detail about her, but it wouldn’t change our friendship. (I’m friends with lots of people with different political views.) <\/p>\n
That’s the way I think it should be. I’m friends with my neighbors, the bartender, the clerk at the store, the mechanic …. Actually, I try to be friendly with everybody, and I don’t think politics should get in the way. <\/p>\n
The culture appears to be going in the opposite direction. Everything is us vs. them. <\/p>\n
I was discussing this with one of my sons recently, and I think this oppositional mentality is part of what I hate so much about wokeness. It’s part of why they rush to judgement. They’re not interested in interacting with you, and facts don’t really matter. They’re interested in an agenda, and in putting everyone in a box: you’re with the agenda or you’re Hitler. And they only need a few tells to decide which side you’re on. Use a particular word a certain way, and that pegs you. <\/p>\n
I’m not trying to get into an elaboration of wokeness, I’m trying to point out how destructive this us vs. them mentality is. <\/p>\n
A society can’t function like that. There has to be a social glue that holds us all together, irrespective of politics. We have to be able to be friends — or at least friendly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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