Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lets you forget a part of your humanity--the troublesome part, the conscience--because you are so busy studying economic models and abstract political theories. It patterns itself after the detached arrogance of the scholar, who must look beyond people to ideas, because people are only transients, while ideas live forever. But it goes beyond that. It also sees people as less important than institutions, because it believes the institution will last forever, too. It lets you think you can forget about your soul, the part that makes you human, because institutions do not have, or need, souls. It makes...
...have a choice as long as they imagine themselves parts of a machine, and not its masters. As long as that view holds the institution must come before the people--the evicted tenants, the shunned students, the workers huddled on a picket line--because it is bigger and will live forever...
...institution dictates that the men--and the very few women--who serve it, see only the greatness, consider only the enormity of their positions, feel only the weight of history. It does not let them see the people who make up Harvard, who study here or work here or live next door in Cambridge. These men may know numbers and outputs, but they have not learned to quantify souls...
...succeeded. I still believe that a sliding scale of ethical values can only slide so far before it runs into unpleasant human realities: that people who lose their jobs do not eat, that people who lose their homes suffer, that people who are forced to live under despotic governments cannot enjoy even the most basic human liberties. But Harvard, for all its professed concern with proper behavior, does not act as if it recognizes these facts. Tied up in professional ethics, it ignores human ethics...
Many people know about the problem, but we don't know why our government does not want Crimean Tarta in Crimea. Crimea is a place of tourism and hotels for the political elite and these people are not good for the government. They want these Tartars to live in Uzbekistan, far from the government...