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Modern people believe that things will only get better and better. This worldview has taken many surrogate forms and shaped all of us deeply, especially in the West. It told us that education, reason, and science would make the world a better place.
The Wisdom Pattern
Richard Rohr OFM
Western humanitarians focused on the technocratic solutions of the colonial power rather than on the rights violations by those colonial powers. The humanitarians also suffered from a patronizing view of colonial subjects (such as Africans) in which the rules that applied in the West did not hold in the Rest. Hence, they had little conception of rights for poor people.
The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly
One of the most important ways I use curiosity every day is to see the world through other people’s eyes, to see the world in ways I might otherwise miss. It’s totally refreshing to be reminded, over and over, how different the world looks to other people.
A Curious Mind
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman
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