I’ve started to see resilience not just as a faux virtue, but a replacement virtue for words that people have forgotten to use, or else avoid. Three genuine virtues being replaced by resilience are courage, fortitude, and forbearance. The difference between these three and resilience is suffering. Courage, for example, is borne of suffering, amongst other things. Resilience denies suffering; we don’t mention that, not here. What if you’re not resilient? Or not resilient enough? What if you don’t meet the undefined standards of true resilience? I expect [resilience] is silencing other virtues as well. Patience? No time for that.
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Melbourne iPhone photograph 9 of 10: The city and the river at Spencer Street Bridge
during the national bushfires, 14th of January 2020, 10:47 am.
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