Our challenge in the coming century will be to resist hiding in the comfort of these self-made bubbles, to remember that there will also be a growing number of other bubbles, large and small, and each one will contain people who feel just as strongly as we do about their own individual truths, passions, and needs.
There's truth and passion in the way they sing.
If this left him blind to the virtues that mannerism may contain — elliptical thought, the tangle of reference, stylishness — well, who would not want to be in a minority clamoring for truth and passion in a mannerist age?
These existential questions lead to moral and political ones: What actions express the truth and passion of our condition?
In this toxic environment, where partisan operatives are spending billions of dollars to deliberately distort and demonize candidates and opponents, the meeting with Secretary Husted reminds me that it is still possible to speak the truth with passion and conviction without resorting to hatred.
"The only way my life makes sense is if, regardless of culture, race, religion, tribe, there is this commonality, these essential human truths and passions and hopes and moral precepts that are universal.
The truth is, the passion has been diminishing for some time, but is more obvious this year given that the closeness of the race would seem to stir some excitement.
In these days of smart, knowing literary fiction, with its ironic debunking of manners and morals, there's something refreshing about reviewing a book that inspires phrases like "desperate longing," "cruel rejection," "deadly truth" and "lonely passion" to describe its characters and their lives.
The point of indirect communication is to position the reader to relate to the truth with appropriate passion, rather than to communicate the truth as such.
