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We must offer people a vision of how things could be and the opportunity to connect with the people, projects, and movements that can bring this vision to fruition

We shape clay into a pot,

but it is the emptiness inside

that holds whatever we want.

The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are. 4 Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all you can be sure of. 5 Everything else is open to question.

Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidity, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.”

This isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a real problem. When the internet becomes dominated by AI, we lose the human touch that makes it special. Soon, the most common content online could be artificial, and the internet could feel like a world of endless copies and fakes.

Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering

When Walmart comes to town, it uses its low prices to undercut competitors and become the dominant player in a given area, forcing local mom-and-pop grocers and regional chains to slash their costs or go out of business altogether. As a result, the local farmers, bakers, and manufacturers that once sold their goods to those now-vanished retailers