I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but finally decided it was time… I saw this bumber sticker today on a car and had to laugh.
“reject commonism.” I had to read it again. I said it a loud and smiled, stealing a gaze around the parking lot to see if anyone noticed me. And then I thought to myself: There are so many things we are concerned with rejecting…really is communism (which is what I originally thought it said) that important to reject? I know many people who would say yes in response to such a question. My contention would be: Aren’t all social problems actually, at their root, deeper than ideologies? Aren’t they fundamentally the manifestation of deeper issues…like….for instance: commonism.
For if we really all understood how unique we are then we would understand why we must stand for or against certain things…irrespective of any ideologies in particular.
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August 1, 2007 at 10:48 am
Joel
Good to see you blogging again.
October 4, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Silas
Sara,
We had a conversation about this before I left for Duke where you suggested that what binds all humanity together is our joint humanity. All of us are categorized and thus known by our differences (gender, race, belief, coffee (love/hate), etc) and you were very concerned, it seemed to me, by the inherit tendency to focus on difference as a principle of relationality and wondered if perhaps such relationality should really be happening over the discussion of commonality. If ‘what we are’ (which also means, by implication, ‘what we are not’) is truly deeper than what ideas we hold and don’t hold, and our uniqueness (the fact that we are this and not that) is based on ‘deeper issues’, what might those issues be?
Silas
December 21, 2007 at 4:08 am
john Wolff
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said, “Jesus loves you, but I’m his favorite.” Take that one where you will… the first group that came to my mind was that it was an Evangelical bumper sticker.
John Wolff