Ethics
Last week, I urged us all to reconsider the way in which we tell stories. I believe oversimplification and a reliance on “us vs. the other” is destroying our ability to understand and relate to one another, which obstructs our chances of evolving culturally. And since what we choose to care about is entirely subjective, [...]
Continue reading about Why We Need to SEE Mass Destruction in Order to Care About the Victims
Whenever there’s a national or global tragedy, I’m interested in seeing how the world reacts. But I’m even more fascinated by the ways people don’t react — and why they choose to do so. For every Iran or Haiti that tops Twitter’s trending topics, there are a million #whyyouinchurch or #PantsOnTheGround just waiting in the [...]
Continue reading about You Are What You Choose to Care About
Whenever friends from Pittsburgh ask me how I’m adapting to Baltimore, I tell them the truth: Baltimore and Pittsburgh are so similar on so many levels that “adapting” hasn’t been necessary. It’s more like I’ve just moved to an extremely remote Pittsburgh neighborhood, and now it takes me 4 hours to get to the nearest [...]
Now that Tiger Woods’s penis is costing millions of Americans their jobs, something has to be done about all this reckless celebrity behavior. If it were just a sex scandal, we might have been able to laugh it off. But as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has noted, Tiger Woods himself is an industry, and when he [...]
