The placement of one’s circle of empathy is ultimately a matter of faith. We must accept the fact that we are forced to place the circle somewhere, and yet we cannot exclude extrarational faith from our choice of where to place it. — Jaron Lanier
The Aceh Story: The Hope of Love and Foregiveness
The Aceh Story: The Hope of Love and Forgiveness
The Fetzer Institute posted this on the 8th anniversary of the Christmas 2005 tsunami in Indonesia. Rebels and government ended 30 years of violence and collaborated instead on putting the country back together.
Bell Hooks on The Real
Usually when I critique a movie lots of folks like, they tell me, ‘It was just showing the way things are. It was real.’ And they do not want to hear it when I make the point that giving audiences what is real is precisely what movies do not do. They give the re-imagined, reinvented version of the real. It may look like something familiar, but in actuality it is a different universe from the world of the real. — @bellhooks, REEL TO REAL
(ht: @SonofBaldwin)
Lady Grantham
“Don’t be defeatist, dear; it’s very middle class.” — Lady Grantham (Maggie Smith)
Revised Govt Classification System Proposed
Proposed: 14 updates to the Freedom of Information procedures that keep “too many documents classified.” #FOIA
The current classification and declassification systems are outdated and incapable of dealing adequately with the large volumes of classified information generated in an era of digital communications and information. — Nancy Soderburg
Iyanla Vanzant | Spiritual Abuse
Sobering: “So why have you sold her down the river for a hat and a parking space?”