If more Christians in the public eye lived like Jimmy Carter—instead of using faith to advance secular political agendas, bigotry and Christian cultural supremacy—Christianity would have a much better reputation.

And more kids who grow up in the church might actually remain in the faith.

i can feel myself slowly morphing into a social democratic george will. complaining about the lack of manners, consideration and due regard for others but from the left

One thing I would like to read more about: the doc basically alleges that Trojan went under trying to rerelease everything with string overdubs to get reggae over commercially / juice its catalog one last time, all while second wave/punk were just a couple years away.

To me, this sound is undefeated:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BwN...

Sadly, a few of the subjects of the biggest interviews (Toots Hibbert, Scratch Perry) have died since 2018. Separately, I’m divided on reenactments as a documentary device, but I generally didn’t mind that this one leaned on them.

Residential neighborhood in a city. Families living on all sides of it. Kids walking past it every day.

I know that’s not an original thought, but nothing brings it out like sitting down and hearing the people who lived it in their own words.

I am enjoying most Studs Terkel’s The Good War, an oral history of World War 2. I might refine these thoughts later, but as I read I feel that people around my age (38) watched a rich and nuanced perspective of the war flatten in real time as the generation that fought it became elderly and died.