Politic Of The Brokenhearted Analysis

In the world today, our single story of each other forms separation and create boundaries that are sometimes impossible to cross because we build our lives around them. In the prelude chapter title the “The Politic of the Brokenhearted,” Parker Palmer conveys his argument of how knowing each other's stories will make us less frighten of one another. In this chapter, Palmer's purpose is to communicate with humans that the way we treat, fear, and devalue each other is making our world a very dangerous place to live in. Palmer suggest that we should stop our stereotyping and learn more about each life,culture and difference. Each of us has a biased world view because we are all limited to a single perspective. That is we only see what comes
The article, “Politic of Fear: How Rhetoric Affects Us Islamic Community,” present how America has a long history of discrimination and that has led to a lot of struggle and negativity for a lot of groups. Ever since September 11, 2001, the Muslim community has been under strict examination when it came to people’s fear and paranoia. After the terrorist’s attacks, Muslims across the nation were immediately looked down upon and many were even being watch by the American government. After the 9/11 attacks many blamed the whole religion for preaching destruction and violence, without even considering that not all Muslims feel the same way as the radical Muslim. Our media painted a picture so devastating and hateful that as a nation we are letting our self to feel fear and hate for people who are in great need of our help and generosity. Donald Trump, one of runner for the U.S presidency claimed that, “The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place was because we allowed his family to come here.” We allow Politicians to put fears in our hearts which makes us willing to sacrifice one another, give up our right and hurt innocent souls just because we do not feel safe. Our constant stereotyping of each is making the world a very evil and sad place to live. Most importantly, what I learned from Palmer’s prelude chapter “The Politic of the Brokenhearted,” is that each of us should examine the assumptions that we make about others. Palmer wants us to start loving people we consider different or our so call “enemy” because after all our enemy is a human being. If we can overcome our hatred and learn to love our neighbor and our enemy, society as a whole will be better off in so many