Liz Bruenig on Atonement and Society

She’s right and I am genuinely angry and confused about how we got to this point, in which individuals get to scold their parents and elders for all the wrongs of the world, where there is no understanding that people are not inherently good or bad but simply have both those moments, and that humans are animals and therefore barbaric too. Go to any developing country, and everyone will call this out for the bullshit it is. If anything, this understanding of those world just shows us how educationally, culturally, and religiously deprived we are.

And have you seen the news coverage? More social workers! More spending! Ffs, our institutions are run by monkeys with PhDs and bureaucrats from the most resentful and neurotic crannies of the country.

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