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Integrity is well worth a lifetime of cultivation. Serving others is really the only way to live your heart’s truth. But you are not cured thereby.
David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Guided by the gospels of “radical longtermism” and “effective altruism” (EA), these newfangled storytellers are devoted to the flourishing of imaginary future people rather than the well-being of the masses right here, right now.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
‘baseline’ communism which applies in all societies; a feeling that if another person’s needs are great enough (say, they are drowning), and the cost of meeting them is modest enough (say, they are asking for you to throw them a rope), then of course any decent person would comply.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
create a repository of “good behavior.” As
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable? Education in cruelty and fear is bad, but no other kind can be given by those who are themselves the slaves of these passions.
Bertrand Russell • The Conquest of Happiness
kindness can be a survival skill.
‘When CG Came Along, We Couldn’t Escape’
Effective altruism involves billionaires creating various institutions to give away their money to charity in a manner they deem effective