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{{quote|“It’s this idea of constantly rethinking, “Okay, what [[System|systems]] might be unfair in the world? What groups might be disadvantaged or marginalized or excluded, and what is my responsibility and my opportunity to try to do something about that?” That’s something we should always be open to revising.” | {{quote|“It’s this idea of constantly rethinking, “Okay, what [[System|systems]] might be unfair in the world? What groups might be disadvantaged or marginalized or excluded, and what is my responsibility and my opportunity to try to do something about that?” That’s something we should always be open to revising.” | ||
:—Adam Grant, Wharton’s “top-rated professor for seven straight years”}} | :—Adam Grant, Wharton’s “top-rated professor for seven straight years”}} | ||
Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know | Show me a system that ''isn’t'' unfair, arbitrary, capricious, conferring of authority on dubious men — you know: [[system]]s like academic tenure, or popularity contests for best professor at Wharton— and I’ll show you someone with a colossal lack of perspective. | ||
Stop fetishising minor grievance. Stop imaginatively conceptualising inequity and substituting it for worth. The world is ''comprised'' of inequity. The world is an [[emergent]] property of inequity. The converse of inequity is [[entropy]] — the oatmeal, tepid, limitless sludge of [[heat death]], to which the Universe is in any case progressing: for God’s sake don’t accelerate the journey. Rather than forlornly trying to re-render the irretrievably human as impossibly divine — rather than sanctifying the fragile, thereby making it ''more'' so, ''learn to be [[antifragile]]. Identify your own advantages and build on them. Build your own systems to dampen your own vulnerability, and those of people you care about. | Stop fetishising minor grievance. Stop imaginatively conceptualising inequity and substituting it for worth. The world is ''comprised'' of inequity. The world is an [[emergent]] property of inequity. The converse of inequity is [[entropy]] — the oatmeal, tepid, limitless sludge of [[heat death]], to which the Universe is in any case progressing: for God’s sake don’t accelerate the journey. Rather than forlornly trying to re-render the irretrievably human as impossibly divine — rather than sanctifying the fragile, thereby making it ''more'' so, ''learn to be [[antifragile]]. Identify your own advantages and build on them. Build your own systems to dampen your own vulnerability, and those of people you care about. | ||
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*[[Maxims for a happy life]] | *[[Maxims for a happy life]] | ||
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