"So the first: transgenerational thinking. I love the philosophers: Plato, Socrates, Habermas, Heidegger. I was raised on them. But they all did one thing that didn't actually seem like a big deal until I really started kind of looking into this. And they all took, as a unit of measure for their entire reality of what it meant to be virtuous and good, the single lifespan, from birth to death. But here's a problem with these issues: they stack up on top of us, because the only way we know how to do something good in the world is if we do it between our birth and our death. That's what we're programmed to do. If you go to the self-help section in any bookstore, it's all about you. Which is great, unless you're dealing with some of these major issues. And so with transgenerational thinking, which is really kind of transgenerational ethics, you're able to expand how you think about these problems, what is your role in helping to solve them.
Now, this isn't something that just has to be done at the Security Council chamber. It's something that you can do in a very kind of personal way. So every once in a while, if I'm lucky, my wife and I like to go out to dinner, and we have three children under the age of seven. So you can imagine it's a very peaceful, quiet meal..."
I can so much identify with each word in this talk, for I believe there are 3 things EVERYBODY can [and must] do...
1. Think out-of-the-box of his or her OWN Being, transcending his or her OWN lifespan, life is beyond that...!
2. Get rid of the Short-termism at once, Instant Gratification is the instinct of the animals that are not SOCIAL...!
3. Check your Morality and Ethics, abide by them and do your bit by enoughism, don't be a savior to 'Save the world...!'
Way to go...
Way to go...
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