I meant that this video looks like Neville’s idea and Will doesn’t want to say no. He can’t very well write an honest account and call out the weirdness of his dad’s behaviour etc and then not want to discuss it with him.
Members of families, children especially, will tolerate a lot and go out of their way not to harm their relationships with their parents. What i see in this family history is that all the tolerance and effort to acceptance is coming from the non-BK side. What aspects of BKism would Neville have sacrificed if his family refused to accommodate him?
Neville knows that (nearly) all publicity is good publicity, so to get his son talking to him in a friendly ’normal' way reduces any residual impression people may have taken from the book of how strange Neville and the BKs are.
And yes, as far as ”spiritual” stuff, if the BKs are his benchmark of wisdom and spirituality, his mention of the buzzwords - mindfulness is just meditation (well... yes but...) - he is still in pre-school.
And Wills last few lines show this video is about getting BKs to buy it, and maybe even promote it. And it feels like the book is Will’s child-like needy way of saying, Dad, I still love you, not because of the BKisms but despite them.
Members of families, children especially, will tolerate a lot and go out of their way not to harm their relationships with their parents. What i see in this family history is that all the tolerance and effort to acceptance is coming from the non-BK side. What aspects of BKism would Neville have sacrificed if his family refused to accommodate him?
Neville knows that (nearly) all publicity is good publicity, so to get his son talking to him in a friendly ’normal' way reduces any residual impression people may have taken from the book of how strange Neville and the BKs are.
And yes, as far as ”spiritual” stuff, if the BKs are his benchmark of wisdom and spirituality, his mention of the buzzwords - mindfulness is just meditation (well... yes but...) - he is still in pre-school.
And Wills last few lines show this video is about getting BKs to buy it, and maybe even promote it. And it feels like the book is Will’s child-like needy way of saying, Dad, I still love you, not because of the BKisms but despite them.