:)

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I have some critiques of multiculturalism as a national project, and in particular the façade of tolerance that passes for inclusiveness in this country and masks an ugly colonialist history and a white supremacist present.

But.

I saw some little girls wearing hijabs playing road hockey on the way home from school today, and is it just me getting sentimental in my old age, or is that not just the greatest thing ever?

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We never solve our problems, we just outgrow them

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I dunno any more who I'm paraphrasing (or possibly even quoting), but my subject-line is a concept I came across a long time ago and which, while over-simplifying reality like any aphorism, still strikes me as containing more than a nugget or two of truth.

Those little hijab-wearing road-hockey players remind this old cynic that all is not wrong with the world — and indeed, serve as a potent reminder that, if we compare the world as it is today with the world at any given point in recorded history, things have actually improved quite a lot.

And this god damned country, warts and all, is actually in the van as humanity struggles to grow out of its problems before those problems take all us down instead.

She shoots, she scores!

Love,


Mr. Pollyanna