Sublime

Part of the challenge we face today is creating conditions where people can let go of destructive beliefs.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Trying to be less guarded, more resilient, and authentic does not preclude also trying, simultaneously, to change the structures that systematically assault our self-worth.

It is not enough to be granted the right not to be abused by our governments without the corresponding right to receive assistance; not enough to possess civil and political rights without social and economic ones as well.

Instead of leveling the field between small and large, the open Internet has dramatically tilted it in favor of the most massive players.

In the words of narrator George Manuel, “perpetual debt binds us firmly to the store.”

The security of having our needs met allows us to have real autonomy and creative agency in the world.

The hazard, in other words, comes from the possibility that millions of people might be less stressed-out and more free.