Minutes of a Monday #60

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Brain Food > The Warrior

“This is not going to be an inflammatory hit piece against woke or anti-woke activists. There are plenty of those already out there.

The rationale for writing about the Social Injustice Warrior archetype is a reminder that we’re all capable of exhibiting these traits when we have benevolent intentions, a strong desire to prevent harm of those we see as disadvantaged, threatened or deceived, and want to take actions for social change in order to bring society to justice. This is a cautionary tale of what happens when any one of us try to make others, society and the world in our image, regardless of how rational and reasonable you think you are. Each one of us is capable of moving from good intentions to what I’m going to describe here.

There are real tragedies, harms and injustices occurring around the globe. In a culture focused on trauma awareness and prevention, the attention has turned from resilience to safety, conflating discomfort with unsafety, hurt feelings with harm, shaming as activism, and unpalatable statements of belief with injustice.”

Nathalie Martinek PhD

piece on the Social Injustice Warrior. You can read it here.

Soul Food

“The highest virtue is not virtue, therefore really is virtue. But inferior virtue cannot let go of being virtuous and therefore is not virtue.”

Lao Tzu

LOL

Bono doing a half decent Dutch accent:

Appendix:

“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.”

Leonardo da Vinci

AOB

As promised, Article #8, asking if AI will replace actors went out last Friday. You can read it here if you fancy.

Have a great week and mind how you go - Niall