Some things we all have in common, regardless of our culture, politics, and beliefs: - Personal relationships are complicated - Making money is complicated - We’ll die without adequate food, water, shelter, sanitation, health care, and social stability 1/
There are as many different approaches to it as there are people. Money is tied into both survival and psychological needs (self-image, status). So is relationship—for the child, psychological safety *is* physical safety, & that echoes into adulthood. 3/
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Fortunately we don’t all need to drink unique kinds of clean water or have unique toilets. Some infrastructure is more scalable. But it’s unglamorous, taken for granted, invisible, until it breaks. 4/
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If we lose sight of the fact that most of our lives are the same—unique, yet issuing from the same perennial themes—and fixate on our differences, then we will waste lives in pointless struggle & neglect to maintain the systems we depend upon. 5/
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We take the world around us as given, as a stage upon which to play out our personal dramas, not realizing the drama that has already transpired merely to set the stage, and the thankless work that people are doing every day to keep it from falling apart. 6/
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