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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

Debugging Justice Justice means the moral development of individuals. It requires exposure to situations of power, and to the consequences of acts. These consequences mustn’t mediated and unseen. Bankers must walk amidst the homes foreclosed; technologists, among their users. /5