patwater @patwater@refactorcamp.org

I think a lot of people have a wrong idea about is that they'll recognize when their country corrupts itself. That getting groceries will just somehow *feel* different for them.

What's hard to fathom is that there very well might be *no* immediate personal impact for them.

This is why attending to the marginal in society produces clarity, whereas distance inhibits judgement. Reliance on personal experience produces a myopia that's exacerbated to the extent it's distanced from this exposure.

There are two ways to handle loss: an awful way and a powerful way. The awful way is to turn into a loser: which is to accept the role scripted for you by the winning side. The powerful way to handle a loss is to not lose. This only seems like a paradox if you don’t understand what Henry Kissinger meant when he said, “the conventional army loses if it does not win, the guerrilla army wins if it does not lose.”

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MS in HCI and Urban Informatics ~ Wall St. tech exile ~ founding member of argolabs.org ~ day jobbing at gaia.com ~ recently moved from NYC to Boulder, CO

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