What is true for me on a personal level is, I believe, true for all of us in one way or another, and true culturally. Our culture has made certain decisions on our behalf, decisions we individuals have participated in with varying degrees of willingness, and even when we fully endorse those decisions we should not, we must not, be afraid to count the costs—to notice the ways in which the rum we make lacks the savor of that made in the old, abandoned ways, even when we affirm that abandonment. For, again, only when we do so may we seek the proper compensations and consolations for what we have
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