Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Non-Political Space

In his recent article "Against Bipartisanship" (found here), Robert B. Talisse argues that the solution to our stark political divisions is not bipartisanship, but finding non-political space and activities within which to engage one another. I wholly agree.

No Ideal

We live in a time where primacy and place are given to the particular. We have lost sight of the goal, any goal. Every particular is primary, which means no particular is primary. What are we to do now that we have no ideals worth pursuing? Will the cacophony of voices somehow magically form a chorus?