And where have you been for the last thousand years? Or the entirety of human history for that matter?
We are a pretty awful species. But if we can’t talk openly and honestly about how awful we are, we’ll never need to own our own awfulness, which means we’ll never have to try to be any better than that. Because it’s so much easier and politically expedient just to project all of our own personal awfulness onto the Other.
Thus, all good discussions should start in a mirror.
And where have you been for the last thousand years? Or the entirety of human history for that matter?
We are a pretty awful species. But if we can’t talk openly and honestly about how awful we are, we’ll never need to own our own awfulness, which means we’ll never have to try to be any better than that. Because it’s so much easier and politically expedient just to project all of our own personal awfulness onto the Other.
Thus, all good discussions should start in a mirror.
Also, fuck TED.