I’ve been reading about 10 books a month this year and I just add things to my list as I see people recommend. I was just thinking about doing Interior Chinatown & Savage Detectives. But there are multiple here that are on my radar to read.

The problem is that I get multiple holds at the same time. They only give me 14 days John. I can’t go 14 days without sleep so I can fit all the reading in.

Yet at this very point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity.” - Bonhoeffer on stupidity Letters from Prison

“He is under a spell, blinded, misused, & abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil…

In the face of evil it is easy to feel a hopelessness to effect change.

What can I do as a single person to prevent the inhumane treatment of humans within our own society?

It is difficult to not allow my inability to fix everything to overwhelm my desire to do something.

So I share to magnify.

I won’t give the context but at one time I felt my Latino background was a detriment to how I was being evaluated so I said I was a Christian before I was Hispanic man. What I was communicating was that I was more formed by conservative white evangelicalism than whichever negative stereotype.

And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.” - Stoner - John Williams

That was a rough episode. I told my wife that it felt like a later season of Lost. So different in its essence than season 1.

But yes. Emotional torture with the expectation of gratitude and love. It’s beyond absurd at the moment.

Sorrow may last for a night but joy comes in the morning