“You read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place," Austin wrote. “People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil.
“I don’t buy it,” he continued. "Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own... By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
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All they had to do was take a bike ride through some negro area of the USA and they would find their belief system sorely challenged.
ReplyDeleteWith a nod to Jim Croce:
ReplyDeleteYou don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't ride your bike in Tajikistan
And you don't mess around with Jim.
--GR Anonymous-I am a white man
P.S.They could have achieved the same insane result--and it IS a Darwin award candidate--by conducting a similar bike ride,in any number of American ghetto cities,after dark.