Tag: writing
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Making an Impact
At some point, we all wonder if we’re making a difference in the world, at the very least, if we’ve left a memorable impression on someone close to us. If we’re being ambitious, the ethical goal of a human life is to make a personally meaningful contribution to the world. Not necessarily world-historical, name-in-textbooks-level impact,…
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Earnest, Not Naive
Big disappointments often lead us from hope to despair, from credulity to skepticism, and from naivety to cynicism. This has been the case with the cultural shift from modernity to postmodernism. The Enlightenment’s optimism about moral and scientific progress, grounded in reason and universal truths, was tempered by the devastating events of the 20th century—world…
Feeling Momentum 