I'm Rooting for a Decentralization

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When you're growing up at age two four six and eight the technology is important but who you believe yourself to be is more important. So i'm always interested in that conversation which is a fundamentally christian conversation. Doisty fski said if all reality is found in narrative my job as a human is to find the best narration, he says. If we keep having the narrative that we're animals that were born and we don't know why and then we die and we just disappear it's not going to work. We'll just keep desiring things that make us really happy right now and that we can consume and thatWe can eat and that we are powerful with

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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