{"id":5872,"date":"2020-04-19T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T20:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2020-04-19T16:44:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T20:44:37","slug":"impossible-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/19\/impossible-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coronavirus Warning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Political Paralysis chapter by Goska discussed the importance of individuals embracing the power people have to make an impact in another person&#8217;s life through small favors and actions. \u00a0In reading it, I thought about our current situation with the coronavirus pandemic. \u00a0As of recent, \u00a0our society has been recognizing the individuals who have been delivering groceries and working in essential stores as well as the medical professionals who are on the front lines as the &#8220;heroes&#8221;. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been reading articles centered around this, and their looming question is whether these occupations and individuals working the jobs will be as admired after we return to whatever &#8220;normal&#8221; will be. \u00a0Reading the first chapter brought those questions to mind, because the &#8220;normal&#8221; before the pandemic often overlooked these individuals and their necessity. \u00a0I imagine this pandemic will be transformative for many people, but I wonder if individuals will be more reflective of their actions and the influences we can make through small favors for others.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, I was drawn to the last chapter titled &#8220;Despair Is a Lie We Tell Ourselves&#8221;, as it calls on each of us to &#8220;maintain our world by changing the world&#8221;. \u00a0Kushner relates this to being politically active, which I believe is important to establish a democratic society. \u00a0However, I continued to wonder about the actions on the individual level. \u00a0Being an active voice in important at the national level, but it should not neglect the actions of the individual on a community. \u00a0This chapter was a good conclusion, as it left me feeling optimistic about the possibilities for change and togetherness. \u00a0I think there is some truth to claiming tragedy brings people together &#8211; this period of isolation and social distancing has only changed people&#8217;s view of how to spend time with others, and I find that to be a positive in all the uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Warning The Political Paralysis chapter by Goska discussed the importance of individuals embracing the power people have to make an impact in another person&#8217;s life through small favors and actions. \u00a0In reading it, I thought about our current situation with the coronavirus pandemic. \u00a0As of recent, \u00a0our society has been recognizing the individuals who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}