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Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me.
Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you.
But [[asking for help with gratitude::highlight]] says: We have the power to help each other.
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Startupy
As long as people think that government (as an ideal and an imperfect reality) is the enemy, we are doomed. Global warming and other problems are too complex to be solved without a collective action, rooted in a desire to make our lives better in ways that are not contingent on market efficiency or personal enrichment. Can a society be said to suffer from dementia? Watching my father succumb, I'm more convinced than ever that he is far from alone.
Notes From Pennsylvania
Matthew Gallaway
Erysichthon’s dominionist hubris may be how we got to this climate juncture, but the path out of our mess is not backwards. It’s some yet-undiscovered third way that rides the dipole between animism and reason. Learning to perceive nature without objectifying it, while at the same time learning to truly live in it.
Rain Lilies and Robots
Field Notes from Christopher Brown
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