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Andy Crouch

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9 Dec

“What’s it like to be the target of so much hate? It’s freeing.” This is excellent in so many respects. abigailshrier.substack.com/p/what-i-told-…

Two caveats: first, I suspect I disagree with Abigail Shrier on some points, including the deep question of exactly what freedom is and entails.

Second, I tire of locutions like “the students of Princeton,” including an entire diverse institution by synecdoche. Even a commencement speaker doesn’t address the entire student body.

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Andy Crouch

@ahc

11 May

I follow, you presumably won't be surprised to learn, a very wide range of well-informed public health folks. They vary, however, in how "insider" they are institutionally.

And I can't help but notice that though I consider all of them super smart, as a rule the more "insider," the slower they've been to definitively say what accumulating evidence clearly shows is true (e.g., most egregiously, risks of outdoor transmission).

I think this reflects a complicated reality of being close to power. There are a range of factors that range from cynical to sympathetic, but all of which militate against forthrightness and honesty:

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Andy Crouch

@ahc

16 Apr 20

https://twitter.com/ahc/status/1250793463664312321

Okay, I have thought about this a bit more and would revise it slightly. (If journalism is the rough draft of history, Twitter is presumably Anne Lamott's, ahem, "crappy" rough draft.)

https://twitter.com/ahc/status/1250793463664312321

I regret the false precision of "50%." (The other numbers have more actual warrant in public-health practice.) Instead I should have said, "roughly half."

I also think "planning for" implies this is the only scenario worth engaging. That's not quite right. So—

If I were a pastor of the modal US congregation I would be asking how we will accomplish our mission if

our budget is cut by roughly half over the next 12 months
no gatherings of >100 are allowed for at least a year
gatherings of 10-50 can resume this summer in most localities

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Andy Crouch

@ahc

25 Feb 19

Thinking about that horrifying Verge piece (which is just the latest reporting on a phenomenon that's been going on, largely offshore, for the last decade or so), and its connection to the authority / vulnerability dynamic I wrote about in Strong & Weak:

There's a Law of Conservation of Vulnerability in every human system. Someone is going to bear the risk. For you to live in Withdrawal (no authority or risk), someone else has to exercise Control (authority without risk), AT THE COST of someone Suffering (risk without authority).

And the only way Control can be maintained at the expense of others' Suffering — is through violence (broadly understood = the violation of another's dignity).

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Andy Crouch

@ahc

23 Mar 18

If you're someone growing in celebrity, your first priority should be to build systems of unimpeachable independence and credibility that can hold you accountable. The problem is that almost no one who tastes celebrity makes this a priority.

And when credible allegations of misconduct come — as has happened in two cases in my circles this week — you are stuck. Even credible allegations can be false. But if you haven't built a system others can trust to fairly assess those allegations, how can we believe your denials?

This is the great tragedy of two generations' worth of impatience with institutions (which reached a peak with my GenX cohort). We neglected real institution-building and settled for celebrity power. But that is a house built on sand, and when it falls, how great is its fall.

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