Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers (2019) will change the way you think about drinking. Forever.
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The martial language employed by culture warriors is a toxic dead-end. Men and women are not tribes locked in a zero-sum battle of the sexes.
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“Much of what appears to be reform in our time is in fact the defense of stasis. When we see through the myths that foster this misperception, the path to genuine change will come into view. It will once again be possible to improve the world without permission slips from the powerful.”
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If this selection from Manifesto for a Moral Revolution (2020) doesn’t make you wanna run out and buy this book, I’m really not sure what will. Talk about a mic-drop moment.
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The powerful can afford to be self-absorbed. Those who lack power cannot. They must be watchful and vigilant.
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I say that the middle class around the world—and it certainly flowers in this country—is the highest form of evolution. The bourgeoisie!—the human beast doesn’t get any better! The worldwide bourgeoisie makes what passes today for aristocrats—people consumed by juvenility who hang loose upon society—look like shiftless children. And we writers spent the entire 20th century tearing down the bourgeoisie!
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“It didn’t take a genius to figure out that this phrase, go with the flow, was supposed to put a mystical aura around being a weak sloven and giving in to your lowest animal appetites. His dad said ‘go with the flow’ a lot.”—Tom Wolfe
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“In the first year I allowed NGL’s group of 24 fellows to be held hostage in their discussions by a small group of activists who verbally attacked any thoughts with which they disagreed.”—Jacqueline Novogratz
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“In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce: failed programs that left people in the same or worse conditions.”—Jacqueline Novogratz
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Stop treating your fellow citizens like children, guys. We can handle the truth.
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“There are days when I have to fight a hardening of my own soul from seeing too many people treated like throwaways. So, yes, I can paint the opposite of idealistic for you. But as the Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie says, there is more than a single story.”—Jacqueline Novogratz
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We’re an intensely social species, blessed with language and imagination. And we’re remarkably good at learning from each other.
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“Nothing could be better, in this time of social distancing, to find the reminder of our place and experience together than in the experience of walking the Olmsted path, with snowdrops along the trail.”—Anna-Liisa Aunio
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Truckers are being denied access to bathrooms, restaurants, and clean truck-stops.
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Will there be another great flood this spring? I certainly hope not. Regardless, it’s good to remember that the damage wrought by these great floods isn’t an Act of God; it’s an Act of Man. We too often blame God or Nature for our own stupidity.
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Then the judgy reporter asked the hot chick in the itsy bitsy yellow bikini what the fuck she was doing on a beach in March 2020. “Spring Break, baby!”—she exclaimed, with the nihilistic exuberance of youthful drunkenness.
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Let’s hook panhandlers up with some free booze until this pandemic passes.
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Just as every homophobe seems to get a gay son, and every preacher who says “God is larger than COVID-19” seems to die of COVID-19, every anti-government ideologue seems to get faced with a problem, like the coronavirus pandemic, that only government can solve. Because the universe has a sense of humor, a sick sense of humor.
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If we needed you to go to work during the pandemic, despite the dangers, because your job is really important, and it can’t be done via Zoom, you should be making twice what you were making before the pandemic.
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Imagine getting a letter right now that tells you that you don’t have to worry about making rent on May 1st. Nor do you have to worry about making rent on June 1st, July 1st, and August 1st.
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