The Dawn of Ethical Reasoning

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, inspired me to think about the relevance of our tiny contribution to political and social discourse.

She was listening to Onora O’Neil, James Baldwin, and Susan Sontag in the wee hours before the dawn of the British 2019 general elections.

Inspiring me to reflect on my own feelings of the power of will.

For me, listening to Baldwin is ethereal, empowering you to walk with determined dignity amongst the fear and chaos, knowing your seeming irrelevance to mankind can move mountains.

Thank you, professor Stonebridge, for reminding me to seek out our muses for grounding and motivation when times seem so bleak.

Those mountains have now become higher/denser than we imagined. We mustn’t make the youth defeat the dark alone. The old white population are showing their fear, we mustn’t let them drag the world with them. This is the hour of holding truth’s sword of dignity no matter it’s weight.