All Things Bright And Beautiful (1974) | How Woke Is It?

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All Things Bright And Beautiful1974

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What We Think

About as non-woke as books get these days. All Things Bright and Beautiful is a heartfelt, humorous ode to traditional values and community, with little of the forced messaging or ideological box-ticking so common in contemporary literature. A breath of fresh, sheep-scented air.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Herriot’s classic veterinary memoir stays charmingly focused on rural Yorkshire life, with narrative driven by character, vocation, and honest, sometimes humorous depictions of hardship. Modern ideological checklists are blissfully absent. Identity isn’t prioritized over vocation or personality. If only publishers remembered this approach.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

The book celebrates traditional values, rural community, hard work, the importance of family, and even the quirks of the local clergy. Masculinity and femininity play classic roles without ironic winks or subversion. Morality, faith, and tradition are respected, not dissected. Welcome to the non-woke era.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

While the book reflects a fairly homogeneous worldview, it doesn’t vilify alternatives; it just doesn’t focus on them. Dissent isn’t caricatured, frankly, it barely appears. This may be refreshing, though diversity of perspective mainly comes in the form of Yorkshire eccentricity, not ideology.

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