I saw it in a cartoon a long time ago – people grow to look like their dogs. It made me look. I’ve always been surprised how similar a lot of dog owners are to their dogs. Of course what is probably going on is that dog owners pick dogs that haver features resembling their own – not the other way round.
When it comes to newspapers we have a tendency to read the ones that are written from a perspective that we agree with.
We surround ourselves with a world that looks and thinks like us. One thing I notice is the way radical has become a normal – it can be hard to find a voice that challenges anything outside of the radical norm.
Sometimes it can be good to listen to voices we disagree with – maybe even detest – because they exist in the world just as much as our voice and views do.
I have a copy of Mein Kampf. Not because I agree with it, but because it opens a window on how race hatred like antisemitism can grow in a person. To me hatred of “the others”, whoever they may be, is a growing scourge.
Maybe next time get a dog that you don’t like the look of.