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The question: “What do we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years?” vox.com/2019/3/27/1822…
Some of my favorite answers:
Some of my favorite answers:
Banning sex work. “Decades from now, we’ll see this time period as the beginning of the end of a long chapter of oppression, abuse, and the vilification of a highly misunderstood profession.” vox.com/2019/3/27/1817…
401(k)s. “Our 40-year experiment with 401(k)s…will be seen as an unfortunate interregnum, a massive waste of taxpayer dollars to bolster the retirement security of the rich while undermining the retirement security of the rest.” vox.com/2019/3/27/1817…
The way we die. “Many in medicine, as well as patients and caregivers, continue to equate more procedures, more chemotherapy, and more intensive care with better care.” vox.com/2019/3/27/1819…
Carnism. “Imagine one morning you wake up to find that…all the meat, eggs, and dairy in the world around you are not, as you had believed, from pigs and chickens and cows but from dogs and cats.” vox.com/2019/3/27/1817…
Our belief in our natural rationality. “We have wanted so fervently, in the post-Enlightenment West, to believe that thinking — and we the thinking creatures, by extension — could be rational and that objectivity was possible.” vox.com/2019/3/27/1822…
The premise of this roundtable. "The very idea that there is a wrong or right side of history has been the moral justification for a variety of historical horrors that were steeped in ideas of modernity and technological mastery."
