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Living Heroes

2/3/2019

 
Just coincidentally, as a followup to yesterday’s post about Greta Thunberg, a Facebook posting she made yesterday just came through my feed this morning, and I have likewise shared it. The link is here, and it is a succinct essay putting forth her explanation of what she is doing and why, in the face of misrepresentation and hatred that she has been on the receiving end of.
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You may note I refer to Ms. Thunberg as “one of my few living heroes.” There is a tad of hyperbole in that statement—I believe we are surrounded by unsung heroes whom we may not even know about, and some that we do that have nowise achieved sufficient public status to become the recipient of large amounts of hatred. (Here in the USA, as I have lately waxed poetic on, the stirring up of hatred is largely coterminous with one popular group that self-signifies by the wearing of red hats.) Needless to say many of the true heroes of our day are not those commonly lauded as such by our politicians.

The matter of hatred is its own topic.

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