We can simultaneously hold two things to be true: 1) Some people are deceived, and 2) Those who are deceived don't know (or are unwilling to admit) they are deceived, otherwise they would not be deceived. This raises a question: Can one ever know they are deceived? Or are we all doomed to be in a perpetual perceptual blind spot? Is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle at work in our ideologies, such that discovering our own internal contradictions—the place behind our eyeballs where our biases meet our perceptions—becomes impossible? How much do we choose the narratives we believe and how much do the narratives we believe choose the narratives we believe? Circular questions like these can lead us into a catatonic black hole of naval-gazing introspection, but hey, we're all pretty far deep inside our myopic rabbit holes. I think it's time we begin digging ourselves out of our dopamine addictions.

Garrett Jones

Emotional Health, Justice, Politics

The most responsible thing we can do to show our solidarity with Ukrainians and with every other people group that is undergoing persecution...is to love our kids, to throw birthday parties, to walk our dogs, to tend our gardens, to hug a loved one, to speak words of life, and to show simple acts of kindness to a stranger. Simply put, the way we beat the darkness out there is to cultivate light on the inside, through all the little, faithful things. Folding laundry, changing diapers, taking that online class, putting in extra time at work, taking time off of work to take our kids to a park, all of it—every single bit of normal life—will confound the powers of darkness in the world, to the point of making them transparently silly and laughable…

Garrett is an expat entrepreneur living in China. His passion is to help people release their creativity through equipping them to write more words. He reflects on the intersection of practical spirituality and politics.

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Garrett is an expat entrepreneur living in China. His passion is to help people release their creativity through equipping them to write more words. He reflects on the intersection of practical spirituality and politics.