Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed herโand in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our naturesโwe will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently areโbut I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.
The culture today is toxic. Media reflects it and amplifies it.
As a society, weโve becomeโฆ
Cynical about the motivations of others
Simplistic in our thinking about complex issues
Certain that we have all the answers
Scared of the challenges we face
Itโs understandable, but unsustainable. And it doesnโt have to be like this.
Progress happens when weโreโฆ
Curious about new ideas
Thoughtful about hard questions
Open to considering other perspectives
Constructive about the challenges we face
In everything we do at Freethink Media, itโs our ethos that makes us different. And itโs our ethos that makes what we do matter.
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Jesse Eisenberg on directing Kieran Culkin, a lesson for leaders about:
1. micromanaging talent
2. seeing project priorities clearly
More from Jesse Eisenberg for Big Think+: https://t.co/hIt93IFUom
Tucker for The Challenge. Tucker for The Amazing Race. Tucker for Survivor. Tucker for The Traitors. Tucker for the Bachelor. Put him anywhere and everywhere. Please and thank you ๐๐ป #BB26
โNever has humanity been so powerful, and at the same time so distrustful of our power,โ says @jasoncrawford in his book The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, which lays out a new philosophy of progress.
The introduction is now live on https://t.co/pNDXupSTgq. Some key passages:
Our very first contributor for Freethink Voices, @jasoncrawford, has thoughtful and constructive commentary on the big questions we face around progress. Look out for the introduction to The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, right here at Freethink, later today.