#112: The paradox of politeness - by Haley Nahman
Good morning! This newsletter feels like a continuation of others I’ve written this year (#95, #96, #102) about dismantling ideas I’ve inherited about what it means to be an adult, and learning to better commune with other people. This one was inspired by this scene in the movie
Good morning! This newsletter feels like a continuation of others I’ve written this year (#95, #96, #102) about dismantling ideas I’ve inherited about what it means to be an adult, and learning to better commune with other people. This one was inspired by this scene in the movie Kiki’s Delivery Service: The other day I watched one of my favorite Miyazaki films, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and something stuck out to me that hadn’t before—a deviation from the standard feel-good movie script I’ve become accustomed to in America. If you haven’t seen it, the movie, released in 1989, follows a…
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