Last week, I urged us all to reconsider the way in which we tell stories. I believe oversimplification and a reliance on “us vs. the other” is destroying our ability to understand and relate to one another, which obstructs our chances of evolving culturally. And since what we choose to care about is entirely subjective, [...]
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Whenever there’s a national or global tragedy, I’m interested in seeing how the world reacts. But I’m even more fascinated by the ways people don’t react — and why they choose to do so. For every Iran or Haiti that tops Twitter’s trending topics, there are a million #whyyouinchurch or #PantsOnTheGround just waiting in the [...]
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Whenever friends from Pittsburgh ask me how I’m adapting to Baltimore, I tell them the truth: Baltimore and Pittsburgh are so similar on so many levels that “adapting” hasn’t been necessary. It’s more like I’ve just moved to an extremely remote Pittsburgh neighborhood, and now it takes me 4 hours to get to the nearest [...]
I know we’re inundated with more information every day than we could ever hope to make use (or sense) of. And I understand that we’re all too busy to fully absorb any multifaceted discussions or complex narratives. But why does every story we tell ourselves end up being reduced to just another case of “either-or”? [...]
