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Bugs in our Most Basic Social Principles

Debugging Freedom To be free requires having people available for projects and explorations; people to go through difficult things with; people who will build, with you, a community of new meaning. So, there’s no freedom without social capacity. Personal freedom is a phantom. /1

Debugging Affluence Wealth once divided "haves" from "have-nots”; but now it's an insulator & isolator. Today, the “haves” are those finding meaning: deep work, places of focus and support, capacious relationships, spiritual places. Democratize this, not affluence or comfort. /2

Debugging Knowledge Universities, labs, schools—engines that generate and certify experts. Unfulfilled, we seek some other knowledge. Experts at goal-accomplishment; we are clueless in living by values. We can't decide which goals to have. We need, instead, engines of wisdom! /3

Debugging Responsibility Cities of "good men" and "good women”. Responsible. Fulfilling contracts. Where are the men & women of integrity, discovering values & living by them? Gone. Ethics, beauty & courage grow impossible. Love is just fulfilling expectations. Work, slavery. /4