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7 pieces · all themes
- On Inequality, Happiness, and Our FutureThe exploiters of today do not own slaves; they employ and pay them. The exploiters of today do not aim to control the television — they instead put forth appealing new platforms.
- Hopelessness KillsFrom that study we now know that hopelessness can kill. Homelessness is a crisis, and it is a crisis that need not exist.
- The White Man's Poverty, Pt. 1I grapple with the idea of inequality and the many crevices of human organization its various vestiges can creep into.
- The Tolerance ParadoxThe tolerant must not tolerate the intolerant; that is the true test of a democratic society.
- On Selfishness and InterconnectednessOn a long enough timeline, selfishness reveals itself to be shortsighted gratification in exchange for long-term failure.
- On PolicingWe do not need police as it exists today. The issue is that the average person has a far greater expectation of liberty today.
- On UtopiasUtopias are possible but their rarity is mimicked by the rarity of planets hosting life, of which we know only one: Earth.