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Every other rights struggle that we have seen—disability rights, gay rights, women’s rights—all come from the efforts of the black civil rights struggles. […] It is black people who have been the perfectors of democracy.

… you have this young brain that has a lot of what neuroscientists call “plasticity”. It can change really easily, essentially. But it’s not very good at putting on its jacket and getting to preschool

In that structure of feeling well, we had started taking acid…

Changing My Relationship to Pain (2023) – Rachel Zoffness

It’s an anthropological fact that masculinity is a bit fragile in that it has to be constructed. Every society has worked on constructing roles and rites-of-passage for men that attach them to their communities. [But] this [nurturing, pro-social] behavior—being learned—is rather fragile, and can disappear quite quickly under circumstances that no longer teach it effectively.

We’ve Built Our World for Loneliness (2023) – Sheila Liming and Ezra Klein

If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’ (2023) – Joseph Henrich

We do have something that is very unique about us as animals. And that’s that we can build alliances with any other species […] to build loving, supportive, safe relationships to save us from the difficulties of life

We Need Better Narratives About Gender (2023) – Masha Gessen and Lydia Polgreen

Is Green Growth Possible? (2024) – Hannah Ritchie

The process by which money value has displaced other languages of value is one of the enormous trends over the last 200 years…