Mark Stahlman
Team Human
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Seeing Things Differently - Mark Stalman
If our civilization is doomed, let's at least enact something closer to mutual palliative care than a descent into paranoid fantasies of individual survival through exclusion and violence. Critics have compared this mind set to the lity of the band playing music on the deck of the titanic as the ship went down. What more beautiful response to inevitable calamity can you imagine? That's not optimism, but neither is it acceptance of defeat. It is the human spirit celebrating its claim to existence,. expression of joy and ability to comfort in the face of death itself. And the sooner we adopt such unconditional heroism ourselves, the better chances we're going to have of navigating the waters ahead.
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