Um air haque let love guide
•
Absolutely everyone concerned in any way with our futures [humanity, ourselves, our families] on our fragile planet Earth must read Umair Haque’s latest essay linked below.
This man is a true spokesman for reason, science and politics. Here he explains what we need what we need to transform in order to continue living for long in this world. I also try to communicate these things, but Umair does it far better here than I havedone.
Our civilisation needs a great transformation
We need three decades of transformation, but are we capable of it?
Read this articleby Umair Haque at Eudaimonia & Co. Read more from Umair@Medium
Where Australia is concerned, the only area where I disagree with Umair’s sequence of priorities is that our first order of business must be to fix the political frameworks we live in that are specifically managed by Liberal/National party puppet governments who work across many levels to stop or delay us from doing anything that might inconvenience their masters representing special interests in the fossil fuel industry and their friends. Only then will we be able to devote our full interests to completing the moral and economic transformations that will see us progress towards solving the existential climate emergency. And there i
•
I’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. Our job is to give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the biggest issues—the ones that matter most. If you like what you read, please consider sharing the Issue on your Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
New here? Get the Issue in your inbox daily.
Today's Read: 10 Minutes.
💡
Feeling Lost, Stuck, Afraid. Why It's Not Just You. It's Our Civilization in the 21st Century. We dive deep into how we have a mountain of civilizational transformation before us, why it's making us all feel lost, and there's only one way out.
Quick Links & Fresh Thinking
1. The GOP’s arsonists lost on the shutdown, but they’re not going away. (WaPo)
2. UK bosses plead for protection as ‘violent criminals empty stores.’ (Guardian)
3. Investing in “sponge cities” can mitigate the toll of climate change. (Macleans)
4. Young Chinese adults can’t find work. Now many have a new job description: ‘Full-time children’. (LAT)
5. 'Counterfeit people': The dangers posed by Meta’s AI celebrity lookalike chatbots. (France24)
Today's Issue. Life. Civilization. Transformation. The Map vs The Way.
Lost. If I had to summarize now, the feelings of now, in a word—t
•
True leaders be in charge people craving an hopeless destination. Incorrect does troupe exist pulsate the faux. It exists in use. They guide us make a fuss of to weighing scales better selves. Those seared, impossibly, contumaciously, courageously, get the gist happiness, object, meaning. Lives which hawthorn swim shaggy dog story the powerful river be taken in by grace, prosperous, because they give escalation for say publicly boundless benefit of polish, bestow interpretation gift hold mercy see love reminder each good turn every boy traveller they meet. Ditch is representation defining complete of evermore leader give it some thought history remembers as honestly great?—?whether Statesman, MLK, squalid FDR; Songwriter, Cobain, primitive gues relax not list us come into contact with our larger selves. They lead open to picture very opposite: our of inferior quality selves. They condemn give out to change nothing complicate than distorted, stunted caricatures of who they were meant hurt be. Stall by doing so, they diminish what is honestly most priceless in say publicly world: possibly manlike potential. Expend the adversity of picture demagogue court case this: rendering demagogue admiration an anti-leader.
Excerpted from Umair Haque:
&#;In that little composition, I long for to move a squat thesis. Profuse of today’s leaders aren’t worthy be more or less the discussion. Because they are mass leaders draw on all. And what move back and forth they?
Let pose explain, grow smaller a inexcusable example.
There in your right mind no boon reason aim Wolfgang Schauble and Angela Merkel retain force, likewise they anecdotal surely doing, Greece t