Public good starts in the private world

The great power in the unhistoric acts of the faithfully hidden life

Two myths shared by feminism and the radical left have a major influence on contemporary culture. The first is that the external problems of life are the most significant; the second is that men do all (or most of) the bad things. These are united by one underlying assumption: the public is more significant than the private. Yet some things are bigger on the inside.

It’s the system

The idea that systemic, chronic, historically verifiable injustice is what keeps people from their desired goals seems to be an original principle of the extreme political left. While I agree that we should not ignore the external social sins of our world, I also believe we do a great disservice to women (and all people) when we treat them as though the alleviation of social problems will result in their automatic happiness. Social sins spring from the private world and to focus on the public is to not address the unrest at the source.

Anyone who has done anything of value knows that the real battles are on the inside. In pursuit of our personal goals we battle our own negative self-talk, our lack of discipline, our personal insufficiency and incompetence, all of which need to be conquered to achieve any…