whom do you love? what do you believe?
Most people that I’ve met hold at least two kinds of commitments: commitments to people commitments to propositions The first kind is almost universally taken for granted. Human neurology prevents our complete transcendence of tribalism, and nobody faults Gandhi for defining his service to the human family primarily at the limited level of his fellow Indian. There’s a…
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the act of faith
Allow me to deconstruct your world for you. It will only take a second. Faith is blind. Trust is naive. Love is misguided. See? It’s all gone, what have you got left? Nothing. But you go on living anyway, as if these three things existed. Or maybe you don’t, but I do. I trust the…
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if anything matters, everything matters
I understand this maxim to mean that in order to rightly value my own reality, I must also value yours. What might happen if we not only posited this as true, but held that position with the force of our actions?
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