(Michael Brigando) Day 18

In the reading “Manifesto”, writer George Saunders explains how, and then declares that the use of force, as well as other radical practices, will not prevail over love and peace. He uses many examples of people who seem to be on opposite sides of present conflicts, mostly those rooting from intersectionality, performing acts of kindness towards people who are seemingly on the other side of said conflicts. Saunders makes sure to point out that these people have sets of beliefs that may not coincide today’s standards of morality. For example, he gives a scenario where an anti-gay elderly man gives a gay man one of his loaves of bread in exchange for helping him pick up his groceries, as his grocery bag had broke.
His purpose seems to come from exigence. As the globalization of today’s society becomes more apparent in our lives, hatred for certain groups has become globalized as well. Saunders has created a manifesto in response to this new type of hatred, and perhaps conflict due to intersectionality as a whole, stating that no matter how much force is used by the groups that spread hatred, the overall peace that humanity has with itself will not be compromised.