Again, I am so grateful for your engagement with my thoughts. Please keep doing that, as much as you are able! Thank you! 4/4 end for now

You are also correct that this is a painfully slow process. We’re not just shifting rationality, but basic reflexes, and the very way that we tell stories, Ursula LeGuin’s “carrier bag” theory might be helpful here 3/

You remark about Buddhism is really helpful. I think there is a *westernized, individualized* form of Buddhism that is just as you describe. But I also think about what has been called “engaged Buddhism.” I admit I do not understand this well, but that seems to avoid the trap 2/

Matt, I am so grateful for the close and careful manner in which you have read and engaged with my words. I share your confusions and your concerns here - I am not sure how to get out of the zero-sum trap, even as I talk a good game 1/

Dignified Agents: A Queer Theology in the Key of Laudato Si’
Humanity and Differences
Materialism: A Critical Primer
The Problem of Paul
Hypothetical Readings
Being Media
Misreading Feuerbach
Jesuit Trickery
Julian’s Cat

Basically I would write the books I am already in the process of writing :)

As Ta’nehesi Coates recently said, “I’m not leaving the country, and they’re not leaving the country,” so that leaves us with finding a path to work it out, or die trying.