Is it the case that the caregiver in a monogamous human relationship seeks to reform their mate according to their own preferences? And furthermore isn’t it the case that when these same mates stubbornly refuse to communicate their relationship becomes rather hellish.
And this brings me to Dante. Recall to mind he was in a dark woods at midlife pining for any direction out. It was the principle of producing a transformative poem in obeisance to his beloved Beatrice. On today’s political stage, we are like Dante in a dark woods. We are being tested upon whither goes society.
Dante Alighieri created a sort of almost living vehicle in his Divine Comedy. For what he did was a blow against the oligarchy of his day. The vernacular became the new medium for great and beautiful art and science. That is revolutionary.
Our current unfinished business is to create a unifying narrative that brings humanity to the next stage.
