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...witnessed the emergence of the new rootless, ego-driven individual as it broke free from old close-knit societies and became afflicted with craving, pride, jealousy and hatred while acting upon its newly expanded world. But unlike such modern thinkers as Hobbes and Marx, the Buddha didn't assume that a model of society was needed that could contain the rampaging egos of human beings. He proposed none of the massive restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment...
...consisted of six rootless dorks in an office in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Carmack, their programming ringer, was a 23-year-old who had spent a year in juvie and completed exactly two semesters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Carmack is an odd duck: blond, skinny, with a fixed, unblinking gaze and a curious vocal tic--his sentences often end with an involuntary noise that sounds something like Mn! Despite his otherworldly demeanor, he is artlessly charming, although he does not make anything resembling small talk. It's not because he's too busy...
...Most people have not gotten it right yet," Kerry told TIME when asked about his formative years. "They seem overly focused on [my] being dropped off at boarding school. I keep reading 'rootless.' I could not disagree more. I have spectacular roots, a spectacular sense of family and place." It's true that many stories about Kerry's early years focus on their nomadic quality, maybe because he had gone to seven schools on two continents by the time he was in ninth grade. And as for an acute sense of family, Kerry did not know the whole story...
...views toward Bush have changed," says Amanda. "Before this, my heroes were my parents. But now I've come to appreciate leadership." Shelley, meanwhile, is bracing herself for the plane flight from San Francisco, but says, "A lot of people in the city, in their 20s, feel rootless. Being with my family is very grounding." The vulnerability she's been feeling lately has helped her decide to move to Nashville next year, to be near Luke and his family. "Being close to my family is a lot better than being close to cool bars...
...title of media whore, along with his recurrent television news panel appearances (surely the fastest way to earn the label). To his credit, nearly all of Hitchens’s contributions to public dialogue have been generally meaningful and unfailingly shrewd. One could argue, too, that his brand of rootless intellectual promiscuity embodies his professed ideal of nonconformity in refusing to stay within the traditional alignments of a man of the left: by giving favors to all, he pledges allegiance to none...