My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I have been reading the New Yorker for going on 50 years now. It's a great magazine, and "The Critics" section is sometimes the best part. A good critic brings together many disparate elements, places things in context, and shows us connections we might not otherwise see.
Flyingsaucesir
Level 8
Feb 14, 2023
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Critical thinking (giving and the ability to receive peacefully) could be the saving process of the world, if there were enough people brave enough to make a breakthrough.
Mcfluwster
Level 7
Feb 14, 2023
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They all will die, just not on your schedule.
Spinliesel
Level 9
Feb 14, 2023
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As the saying goes, 'Patience, grassflopper, patients.'
Negativity never breeds anything nut negativity so I have been told!!!
of-the-mountain
Level 9
Feb 13, 2023
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It's a good thing I never settled down to the family life. Problem solved!
We actually need critics. They are essential to our wellbeing.
Jolanta
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Feb 13, 2023
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@Gwendolyn2018
I am not! I just printed out my profile this morni... I'm going to stop typing now.
This morning I had a toasted bagel with cream cheese with my cup of coffee. For a few brief moments I attained perfect happiness. Later I found out that bagel critics don’t toast a bagel, they don’t cut the bagel and they certainly wouldn’t demean themselves by eating a grocery store brand bagel. Turns out I was doing it all wrong. But ignorance is bliss! Think I’ll do it again tomorrow!
TXLerins
Level 5
Feb 13, 2023
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I wouldn't be surprised if that bagel got creamed!
Nobody ever built a statue of a critic.
273kelvin
Level 8
Feb 13, 2023
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Said Sibelius.
To what critics are you referring?
I add equality of all people, no racism, no misogyny, no transphobia: a world in which we all respect each other and live in kindness with each person living as they choose.
skeptic70
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Feb 13, 2023
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We are all critics not only of others but, sometimes, even of ourselves. What if someone doesn't live in the parameters you or your tribe (agnostic) agree? There are subjective truths and objective truths and even agreeing on which is which can be critiqued.
@skeptic70 Yeah, like everything is always cut and dry. How many of us have gone in one way, supporting a certain person or issue, to later find it was the wrong thing to support. We humans evolve through knowledge and that knowledge comes through learning and experience. To stop learning is to stop evolving. Right now I am feeling trapped because of changes in this amazing community on this island which I live (in some areas we are ahead of most communities in the whole state). The prevailing attitude has been go along to get along. The pandemic showed how dangerous that can be. Some of my closest friends have ostracized me because I dare have principles. I got to thinking we humans are like many other species in we seem to create mumurations for ourselves. In a murmuration every body follows the nearby bodies and creates a protective formation. Many animals (fish and birds) do it for protection. I simply involves following the others around you and not having to make your own path. Look at this video and see how some murmurations actually break apart and form their own tribe - just like many human groups.
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