RT @nick_routledge: @Harpers @SalmanRushdie @PENamerica Salman Rushdie, August 2022: "We are engaged in a war of narratives...false narratives rooted in antiquated religiosity and bigoted ideas from centuries ago...narratives that privilege the majority and oppress minorities...And these narratives, let it be said, are popular.”
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But we are not helpless. Even after Orpheus was torn to pieces, his severed head, floating down the river Hebrus, went on singing, reminding us that song is stronger than death. We can sing the truth and name the liars. We can stand in solidarity with our fellows on the front lines and magnify their voices by adding our own. Above all we must understand that stories are at the heart of what’s happening, and the dishonest narratives of oppressors have attracted many. So we must work to overturn the false narratives of tyrants, populists, and fools by telling better stories than they do, stories in which people want to live.
9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning.
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