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Zhuangzi understands virtue as manifested by living in accordance with nature. Corruption occurs, according to Zhuangzi, only when one deviates from nature’s path. If nature determines that a person has one arm, splayed limbs or a hunched back, the person can embrace these changes and harmonize with them. As Zhuangzi says, “Virtue [takes] no form.”

Opinion | Was This Ancient Taoist the First Philosopher of Disability?

nytimes.com

The “online” we experience today is the outcome of the Silicon Valley worldview, what Maria Farrell calls a [personality disorder](https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/15/silicon-valleys-worldview-is-not-just-an-ideology-its-a-personality-disorder/) : the internet is a surveilled, controlled, corporate space ruled by algorithms and the cancerous growth urge that fuels them. Scale is ascendant. Love is not.

Marc Andreessen Is Right – Love Doesn’t Scale

Mark Hurst

Replacing all meat and poultry with dairy and eggs, as tends to be the case in Western vegetarian diets, can produce more carbon emissions than a largely plant-based diet that includes poultry, Raychel Santo, a food-and-climate-research associate at the World Resources Institute,

If Not Vegan, or Vegetarian, How About Chickentarian?

Eve Andrews

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