‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish
“Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.” —Pete Buttigieg
... consider our own duty to honor them and the sacrifices they made by striving to become a more compassionate and empathetic individual and. By working tirelessly to increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and to embrace universal love and kindness towards all beings. Everywhere. Regardless of spiritual beliefs, politics, nationality, race, or sexual preferences. To do otherwise us to be blind with sight.
"Narration is a concluding form. It creates a closed order that founds meaning and identity. In late modernity, which is characterized by opening up and unbounding (Open Society), forms of concluding and closing off are increasingly eroded. At the same time, with increasing permissiveness comes a growing need for narrative forms of closure. Populist, nationalist, and right-wing extremists or tribal narratives, including conspiracy theories, cater to this need. They are taken up because they offer meaning and identity. However, in the post-narrative era, with its' intensifying experience of contingency, these narratives do not have any strong binding force."
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The source of my meaning... and that of his grandfather.
... consider our own duty to honor them and the sacrifices they made by striving to become a more compassionate and empathetic individual and. By working tirelessly to increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and to embrace universal love and kindness towards all beings. Everywhere. Regardless of spiritual beliefs, politics, nationality, race, or sexual preferences. To do otherwise us to be blind with sight.
"Narration is a concluding form. It creates a closed order that founds meaning and identity. In late modernity, which is characterized by opening up and unbounding (Open Society), forms of concluding and closing off are increasingly eroded. At the same time, with increasing permissiveness comes a growing need for narrative forms of closure. Populist, nationalist, and right-wing extremists or tribal narratives, including conspiracy theories, cater to this need. They are taken up because they offer meaning and identity. However, in the post-narrative era, with its' intensifying experience of contingency, these narratives do not have any strong binding force."
- Byung-Chul Han
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