Sublime

from the bad—for a morality of indifference. It’s a culture that educates for advancement—résumé building and the ladder of success—over attachment: to crafts, causes, and communities of competence.

Palmer is saying that the way we attend to others determines the kind of person we become.

One of the great fallacies of life is to think culture is everything; another great fallacy is to think culture is nothing.

Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take less; inspire them to join the solution, but never, ever accuse them of being part of the problem.

Darren Walker,

We know more or less how to meet our desire for satisfaction but are terrible at making it last.