Sublime

legacy of second-nature civic association

It is time to redraw ourselves as people who thrive by connecting with each other and with this living home of ours that is not ours alone.

Dr. Jonas Salk—who by discovering the polio vaccine saved thousands of children’s lives and never sought to profit financially from it—once remarked, “What people think of as a moment of discovery is really the discovery of a question.” When I felt stuck as a teenager in the structures of thought and perception of our culture, it wasn’t for a lack

What I want to emphasize, though, is the degree to which what we consider our core tradition of moral and political theory today springs from this question: What does it mean to pay one’s debts?

we are still just talking about how people relate to one another.

We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is…

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When society undergoes major change, people discover that the world isn’t as solid as they thought.

It’s also about the hungers and appetites of everyday people—for those stirring feelings of superiority and purity.