On Repentance and Repair Making Amends in an Unapologetic World

And one of the books that I think is a powerful book in this new bookshelf that we're going to call group help is Donya Rutenberg's On Repair and Repentance.

And so I think so much of what has happened structurally is like we don't have tools to help people who used to have power... to kind of integrate, to have a new way of being a man in the world, to have a new way to be a white person in the world in a multiracial, multicultural context.

I loved so much, On Repentance and Repair, Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.

I wrote up a couple of paragraphs based on what I think, you know, Maimonides sort of order of repentance and we'll get into what the steps are.

One of my favorite confessions is Dan Harmon, who was the showrunner for Community and he sexually harassed one of the writers on his set, Megan Gantz.

Like, oh, well, isn't this a hard one? Because you have to say it, change it, and then accept the consequences for it.

And the reason why that's given by later commentators is very much because, you know, if somebody talks crap about you, it's like the feathers have been let loose in the wind.