To (but certainly not exclusively) @yaneerbaryam @PezeshkiCharles @NoraBateson
With respect to America’s current state of empathy:
I just watched again the final episode of Ken Burns’s “The Roosevelts”
pbs.org/video/roosevel…
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With respect to America’s current state of empathy:
I just watched again the final episode of Ken Burns’s “The Roosevelts”
pbs.org/video/roosevel…
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It will give you a strong feel for the American collective sense after the Great Depression and four years of World War 2.
Evidence of what we were, and what we were willing to create, lies in such edifices as the Marshall Plan and the UN.
That was then.
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Evidence of what we were, and what we were willing to create, lies in such edifices as the Marshall Plan and the UN.
That was then.
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Now, if you follow
beginning at 33/55
you will see my bird's-eye view of how we have changed since then.
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beginning at 33/55
you will see my bird's-eye view of how we have changed since then.
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Notice the emergence of “radical individualism” around the 1960s, everywhere but particularly in economics.
Then in the 1990s the world changed and the weaknesses in ourselves and our leadership that could be ignored before began to emerge as our economic stress increased.
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Then in the 1990s the world changed and the weaknesses in ourselves and our leadership that could be ignored before began to emerge as our economic stress increased.
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My takeaway: Do not be discouraged.
This is reversible, but we need to understand ourselves much better than we do.
More later.
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This is reversible, but we need to understand ourselves much better than we do.
More later.
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