Tip-Off #67 - After criticism

"Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again." - Paul Ricoeur

Image by Mariana Anatoneag from Pixabay

In our relationships, writes Thoreau, "there is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspected." There is always something wrong with other people; prejudice is plausible. Academics speak of the "hermeneutics (interpretation) of suspicion." Criticism digs out disguised …