[Craic] On Consolation

[Allan Baker]

CRAICers;

Here’s the paragraph from “On Consolation” by Michael Ignatieff that I referred to today:

“Though I have described three ancient doctrines of consolation - the Hebrew, the Christian, the Stoic - together with a fourth one, the idea of progress that led Marx to put his faith in revolution, this has been a book about people. It is not doctrines that console us in the end, but people: their example, their singularity, their courage and steadfastness, their being with us when we need them the most. In dark times, nothing so abstract as faith in History, Progress, Salvation, or Revolution will do us much good. These are doctrines. It is people we need, people whose examples show us what it means to go on, to keep going, despite everything.”
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Happy New Year;
Allan