CxD #232: How to deal with hatred and bigotry skillfully! Join my new subscriber chat 💬; Bob Dylan's multitudes
A private space for us to converse and connect
Hello CxD friends! It’s been a whirlwind on my end the past few weeks but I’m so happy to be back at the typewriter, pounding the keys! 📝
1. Substack set up a new chat feature using the mobile app. I’m hoping it can deepen our engagement for those who wish to engage.
To join our chat, you’ll need to download the Substack app (messages are sent via the app, not email). Turn on push notifications so you don’t miss a chance to join conversation as it happens.
How to get started
Download the app by clicking this link or the button below. Chat is only on iOS for now, but chat is coming to the Android app soon.
Open the app and tap the Chat icon. It looks like two bubbles in the bottom bar, and you’ll see a row for my chat inside.
That’s it! Jump into my thread to say hi, and if you have any issues, check out Substack’s FAQ.
2. Here’s an instant way to try out the chat feature! Watch the video below and write what this conversation evokes in you.
Quick blurb: This is Jon Stewart’s response to the rise of recent anti-semitism by popular figures. To his credit in moving into complexity rather than into reactive soundbites, he quotes Kanye West himself: “Hurt people hurt people.” We have to honor and understand where people’s feelings come from, regardless of their truth, to move toward greater understanding and toward healing. “It shouldn’t be this hard to talk about things.”
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Excellent essay about Bob Dylan:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/31/a-unified-field-theory-of-bob-dylan
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You greedy old wolf, I’ll show you my heart
But not all of it, only the hateful part,
I’ll sell you down the river, I’ll put a price on your head,
What more can I tell you? I sleep with life and death in the same bed.
~Dylan “I contain multitudes”