RS180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Karen Armstrong, Friendship Train, Mary Chapin Carpenter
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The love klein talks about in love will save this place" is not a romantic love, but a compassionate, yet ferocious love love for family, heritage, community, and everything that comes with it. She talks about the collective and deeply felt expression of love for [the] breathtaking part of [bella bella and its community] (klein, 341). Armstrong best articulates the kind of love klein talks about. Armstrong addresses the issues of inequality and imbalance of wealth and power in today"s world that lead to feelings of a growing rage, malaise, alienation, and humiliation (armstrong, The constant addition of these feelings causes an outburst of never ending wars, which results in stronger feelings of rage and malaise and thus, this cycle never ends. This unfortunate fact of today"s world led to the misinterpretation of the peaceful protest in bella. Bella and made the visitors feel unsafe (klein, 340).