This isn’t merely righteousness but also a quality of goodness

Thist century has been typified by the widespread normalising of cynicism. By which I mean simply the idea that all idealism is stupid or fake, that goodness is not an aspirational idea ; that the concept of goodness is even cringe. As we rely more on analytical frameworks to decide who or what is right and wrong, we lose our GPS for navigating the contradictory terrain of life, to search for goodness outside a fixed menu.

Recently someone said to me “not all good things are impactful”. I didn’t disagree, but I pondered the sentence itself for a long time, wondering about its implication that impactfulness, a measurable success, was the final value, while the idea of goodness flickered like that one malfunctioning letter i

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