I love my mother. I’m very grateful for all she’s done for me and continues to do for me. I’m lucky that way.
But love, goodness, good intentions, and good feelings (and especially authority) are no way to go about determining truth, even if you’re a fictional character in a a 19th century novel.
I REPEAT: Good and smart people can be wrong. Good and smart people can be manipulated and fooled, and used to pass the manipulation along to the ones they love. That doesn’t make them bad or stupid. But you are also under no obligation to go along with what you know is wrong, even if someone you love really, really wants you to.
Happy mother’s day.
















