Can people really change?
In our podcast’s season finale, we talk to Bono and Kerry Washington about what it takes to change hearts and minds.
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Keith Robison
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Dec 15, 2020 06:43AM
People are just people. They decide who they are, both good and bad. Talking with Bono and Kerry are probably not the best sense of reality.
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Children do count. Children will always drive change.What you are really asking maybe is can older people change? Can indulged comfortable Baby Boomer types change? Can people who insist on the right to "drink a hot drink in a cold room on a hot day" change, REALLY...in any substantial way? Are we to comfortable with our middle class indulgences.
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Do you use insulation in new houses? Vapour barrier?
Do you recycle?
Do you still use DDT?
Do you think priests are infallible?
Do you think women should be doctors?
Has anyone in your extended family dated across racial lines?
Do you know an 'out' gay government representative?
All of these things have changed in the majority opinion since my youth. Old people have changed a lot. Older people have pushed and revealed and investigated and tolerated and loved and change has happened. Been welcomed. Some of the most radical people I know are older, now frail, opinionated stalwart women.
Mothers. Grandmothers. Great grandmothers.
A grandchild in prison unjustly is still your grandchild.
Laws can be unfair, unjust, outdated. Laws can change.
People can change.
Will we allow change to happen?
Will we recognize it when it arrives?
Will we still love the child who brings that change to our door step?
If we have to change or compromise their future?...
lose contact with them...
lose them...
poison them...
Will we change then?
It's like "Every one wants to go to Heaven but no one wants do die."We do love changes, even different color toothbrush gives us freshness. But people don't want to change habit or "comfort zone" willingly but we are forced to change by causes like covid and so.
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