Effective Rebellion
An excerpt from David Brooks’ NYT opinion piece, How to Fight the Man. Read the whole thing — it’s short! This is good advice politically, theologically, ideologically.
“For generations people have been told: Think for yourself; come up with your own independent worldview. [But] unless your name is Nietzsche, that’s probably a bad idea. Very few people have the genius or time to come up with a comprehensive and rigorous worldview.
If you go out there armed only with your own observations and sentiments, you will surely find yourself on very weak ground. You’ll lack the arguments, convictions and the coherent view of reality that you’ll need when challenged by a self-confident opposition. This is more or less what happened to Jefferson Bethke.
The paradox of reform movements is that, if you want to defy authority, you probably shouldn’t think entirely for yourself. You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of thought that has been developed over the centuries and that seems true.”
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