I'm loathe to praise the Israelis, but their approach to airport security is quite good, with a mind on minimal bunching up of crowds, not to create a clear target for terrorists.
It is very racist, though, any elevated melanin levels in the skin will make you subject to getting picked out and searched. But that happens with the TSA too.
Ah I see. Yeah it can be very polarizing especially if your message goes against the grain of what people convinced themselves (or sometimes media) of.
Imho always good to try out differences on perspective, just to see how that would make sense. I feel that many people are very defensive out of being scared and insecure, yet wanting to come across like they are not.
Yeah I get ya, I'll refrain from further proselytizing and let you form your own opinion.
I find that annoying bit of self-righteousness is assuaged by people practicing what they preach and not sitting back and pointing out the flaws of other.
Yeah particularly Man Kind is a good read to get your mind off the general madness that drains your soul, almost by design. The key advice if the book is to wean off the news cycle that keeps reminding us about the inherent evil of people.
If you interact with actual, normal people in everyday lives most of them aren't sadists and just want to live their lives and be good.
And then he shows many historical examples about how that's actually what drives most people.
So yes, that might be what you need. I'm not generally for glorifying people, but Bregman has my highest respect.
In Man Kind he shows that in general is best to assume people have good intentions, and generally not trying to do bad things.
In moral ambition he shows the mechanisms work that corrupt people from this general good state of being and argues that a new moral framework is needed to fight that corruption, which is ruinous for the ordinary people who just want to live well.
But aside from just sitting that down he actually tries and start a movement to create that change. Which, I think it's quite special.
Not only for speaking out, like the time he told the billionaire crowd at Davos to just pay their taxes, but also for doing stuff like setting up a new movement for morality where he recruits intelligent people that are tied of working for greedy consultancy agencies or hedge funds to team up and create a new sense of morality.
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