![]() Even without that formidable personal origin, our biological nature prompts this initial self-concern as well. are products of a culture that is superbly focused on individualism and the rightness of personal experience. And we have a hard time seeing this kind of thing-because we begin in ourselves.įorget for a moment that most of us in the U.S. And what feels cozy and warm to me feels wrongheaded to someone else. ![]() The shorthand of this is that everything that feels foreign to me feels comfortable to someone else. I and you and everyone you know are by nature unable to project ourselves into experiences we have not had. ![]() I’ve argued for a while now that one of the most prominent powers of literature is its ability to promote empathy-and this without the reader ever noticing what’s going on.Īmong the greatest troubles when discussing faith and culture is that we all come from such different structures. ![]()
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