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24 Apr 2008 05:25 pm
"Fake Optimism"
A reader writes:
I'm currently reading this collection of the correspondence between two
of my favorite writers, "Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas
Merton and Czeslaw Milosz," that spans the last 10 years of Merton's
life. It's a fascinating read that for some reason is not currently in
print (though used copies can be found quite easily online). When I
read the following from Merton I had to chuckle. I guess people are
people, whether it's 1960 (when this letter was written) or today:
"It is quite true that I ought to speak more with the accents of my
time. They are serious, they are not just a pose, the bitterness of
people is not just something to be dismissed. I detest the fake
optimism that is current in America, including in American religion. I
shall continue to think about these things."
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