Okay. For Rewind Wednesday, we visit a story from South African apartheid, and related truth and reconciliation processes, to reflect on the cruelty of news cycles that don't give us the tools we need to think more seriously about justice.
What would it look like?
Do we have the means to achieve the ends we desire?
Or should we be looking for a sense of liberation somewhere else, while fighting the good fight in all our unjust systems, too?
#Justice #History #Humanism
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/what-sort-of-justice-can-we-expect
This one took a while to finish because I hated my first ending - way too much "copium" / forced positivity.
Then I hated my second ending - way too bleak, sad dead turtles all the way down.
But now I hope I've struck a better balance.
Did you know that it is VERY HARD to try to solve the world's deep existential problems in a single essay?
One might even say impossible, but the endings must still flow.