Commenting here after recently listening to the podcast audio. I really liked this. Thanks for writing and for narrating it.
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I think I relate to the ending sentiment about motherly love rather surprisingly in my attitude to my home metropolises of the Bay Area and Atlanta. Focusing on the Bay, which will probably be more familiar to readers of this comment, the good things about it (lively techno-optimistic subcultures, the earnestness of almost everyone I meet) are reasons for pride, but while the bad things (overall governance structures and dynamics in California have not been producing good results) are reasons for disappointment, they do not overall reduce my love of my homeland.
And, crucially, there’s some spiritual-adjacent nature of that love for my homeland. I admittedly haven’t spent much time thinking about the problem of evil as applied to “existentially positive” spirituality. But I think I buy that the motherly love dynamic may have an important role to play, and my feelings about California seem to me to provide some evidence.
Commenting here after recently listening to the podcast audio. I really liked this. Thanks for writing and for narrating it.
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I think I relate to the ending sentiment about motherly love rather surprisingly in my attitude to my home metropolises of the Bay Area and Atlanta. Focusing on the Bay, which will probably be more familiar to readers of this comment, the good things about it (lively techno-optimistic subcultures, the earnestness of almost everyone I meet) are reasons for pride, but while the bad things (overall governance structures and dynamics in California have not been producing good results) are reasons for disappointment, they do not overall reduce my love of my homeland.
And, crucially, there’s some spiritual-adjacent nature of that love for my homeland. I admittedly haven’t spent much time thinking about the problem of evil as applied to “existentially positive” spirituality. But I think I buy that the motherly love dynamic may have an important role to play, and my feelings about California seem to me to provide some evidence.