Thread by @swardley

The modern ideas of philanthropy are just a perpetuation of the ethics of individual choice, a reinforcement of the transactional nature of our society ... at some point, we're going to need hat conversation of Me vs We, to consider the ethics of care and our duty to others ...

... alas not only does our Western education tend to drive individualism but it may also get baked into our neutral structures - psypost.org/2018/01/study-… ... that's a difficult cross generational mess to unpick if we can't even think in the right way.

I have to say a huge thank you to @marcusguest for that paper. It has never occurred to me before, after a decade of saying that we need to learn from China that some may not even have the necessary neural structures to do so but then why do I (and others) seem to see this ...

... maybe it's something about the collective nature of mapping but then that came from my open source background. So, maybe it's my involvement in open source but ... where did that come from and why ... and I trace back and back and then I notice ...

... and this is going to sound really odd. But by my bed is a book. It's the first book I ever bought much to the polite interest of my parents. I liked the words, I didn't understand why. But that book has stuck with me ever since ...

... not the exact same book, I keep giving it away and buying another. I love the book, everytime I read it is a different experience, it's almost magical in nature. It fundamentally makes me question so much about everything, that book has changed my perspective so many times.

Maybe, that book has changed my thinking in ways that I don't really understand. It's a fascinating idea. We are a product of our experiences and also not ... but that's another story. That book by the way and don't ask me to try and explain it is Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.

Anyway, I'm extrapolating wildly ... it's an interesting thought though. Something that just simply hadn't occurred to me that might even be possible.