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Suppose that human life on this planet were subject to some serious threat. Moreover, suppose that this threat was both caused by human activities, but also preventable by changes in those activities. Add to this that the existing social and political systems had allowed the threat to emerge, and then shown themselves to be incapable of adequately responding to it. Then ask two questions: Would such failure license a criticism of the existing social and political systems? If so, how serious a criticism would this be?
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
Don’t define your essential self in terms of that feeling; the feeling does not affect the essential “I.” It’s similar to when you throw black paint in the air; the air remains uncontaminated. You never color the air black. No matter what happens to you, you remain uncontaminated.
Stop Fixing Yourself
Anthony de Mello
If you think of the world as an engineering problem, a dashboard of dials you can turn and switches you can toggle and thereby make everything optimal, then you don’t always register the voices of people who see a different world—one of people and systems that guard what is theirs and lock others out.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
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