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The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I’ve always felt like this could be better.
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It’s almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
Maybe one day the world will change, that we’ll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it’s inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn’t matter right now.
When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
The question, I’ve come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
There’s no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.