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History is full of inspiring charismatic figures – Mahatma Gandhi, Jeanne d’Arc, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., but meaningful social change comes about through the work of many people. Photo Illustration: The Globe and Mail. Source images: AP Photo. Painting detail: Salvator Mundi, El Greco., which won the National Book Award.
What most of us notice in small social settings, I think, is not the ability of another person truly to empathize with someone else’s point of view, but the inability of some people to do this. They cannot entertain another point of view without fearing the loss of their own, or they’re simply less capable of being empathetic.
All people, every culture, every country, now face the same problematic future. To reconsider human destiny – and in so doing, to leave behind adolescent dreams of material wealth, and the quest for greater economic or military power, which already guide too much national policy – requires reassessing the biological reality that constrains. It requires “resituating man in an ecological reality.
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