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Do we want equality?
It’s silly to talk about wanting equal value for all endeavors or cultures or lifestyles, although it’s a perfectly ordinary sentiment to express these days. We all say it, but no one really believes it; we really just want equal recognition for us. I think children are the most instructive example for figuring out what…
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So Will Smith slapped Chris Rock
Last night was a night of historic firsts at the Oscars. And among those firsts the most memorable is sure to be the onscreen pairing of Will Smith’s hand and Chris Rock’s face. Everyone seems to want to talk about this incident. And it’s perfectly understandable, even with all the other crazy news going on…
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Does God want you to change the world?
https://pulpitrock.com/resisting-complacency/ I came across this article, and I really love the spirit in it. Life is a struggle. The world is pulling us in a hundred ways so hard, so quickly, that learning to sort the signal from the noise is one of our biggest problems. You have to be calm and quiet and centered…
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Women, sympathy, and violence
Women, sympathy, and violence (Part 1) In my life, I’ve found women to be unusually sympathetic. But I think there is one group that women, in general, find it very difficult to have any sympathy for, whose sufferings don’t really matter to them. Men. Women can sympathize with other women and with children unusually well;…
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Is doubt good or bad?
The value of a crisis of faith and assumptions about it. I recently heard someone give a talk about having a crisis of faith. And their conclusion was that it’s not a bad thing. It isn’t a problem. It’s a good thing. It doesn’t mean that you’re a bad person, in fact it means that…
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Asserting social norms is easy
What do we do about social values? This is a very difficult question. We see that there is a problem, but many intelligent people are uncertain about what to do about it. Perhaps this uncertainty is more of a reflection on the uses and limitations of intellectuals (they’re not great at execution, they’re thinkers) than…
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Jordan Peterson declares war
I want to talk about this clip. This is a very confrontational statement for Jordan to make. I know he’s famous for being confrontational, but generally he’s takes a more clinical approach, the approach of a therapist; listening and sympathizing, but ready to question and challenge. This statement is a refusal, an indictment, a declaration,…
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Engagement as the currency of value
Everyone wants you to engage. Engagement is the traffic of and goal of the internet. Engagement produces currency. Either social currency or literal currency. So that’s why everyone wants it from you; it’s what the internet is designed to mine. At any cost, by any means, your engagement. Engagement is success, success is value, value…
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Identitization
One of the strange abilities the human race possesses, that is responsible for the proliferation of thousands and thousands of different cultures across time, is that we have the ability to catalyze an identity around anything. Even things that are purely fictional, like Star Wars. We can very easily form collective identities around shared narratives…
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Hope in the face of human evil
I think life presents a problem in general about all human endeavors and how we judge them. We all have very fine ideas and intentions, but we’re all human, so the reality of our actual lives rarely comes close to what our principles and intentions aspire to. If we were all to truly take stock…
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