Thank you! Intrigued by Bonhoeffer’s conclusion that inner liberation from collective stupidity is preceded by external liberation - which is created by God. Is God the external liberator in that calculation? Of course, I think there are other instances - Poland and Brazil seem to be both be going through such a process as they wake up from the fever dreams and destruction of their own ‘MAGA’ movements. I suspect that is what it felt like for many Germans as the smoke cleared from the war. I think the question is what if political power shifts but the epiphanies don’t happen, if the midterm wins are good but not great and then we continue to have this malignant, persistent stupidity (on both sides) in the country?
Two great movies on this theme: Don’t Look Up (of course) and Lore (a film about the end of WWII in Germany) which has a brutal awakening (in the face of sustained stupidity) in the final scene.
Always fun and interesting to read this piece, are you getting many comments? You are nicer to stupid people than I am. Too many stupid people to be nice all the time. Ml
Thank you! Intrigued by Bonhoeffer’s conclusion that inner liberation from collective stupidity is preceded by external liberation - which is created by God. Is God the external liberator in that calculation? Of course, I think there are other instances - Poland and Brazil seem to be both be going through such a process as they wake up from the fever dreams and destruction of their own ‘MAGA’ movements. I suspect that is what it felt like for many Germans as the smoke cleared from the war. I think the question is what if political power shifts but the epiphanies don’t happen, if the midterm wins are good but not great and then we continue to have this malignant, persistent stupidity (on both sides) in the country?
Two great movies on this theme: Don’t Look Up (of course) and Lore (a film about the end of WWII in Germany) which has a brutal awakening (in the face of sustained stupidity) in the final scene.
Bonhoeffer rocks. So do you.
Always fun and interesting to read this piece, are you getting many comments? You are nicer to stupid people than I am. Too many stupid people to be nice all the time. Ml