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And we reflect on the past decade of political and economic upheaval, of growing inequalities, and when we look ahead to the challenges of the climate emergency, increasing automation, an aging population, then I think the argument for the case for a much broader
definition
of what it means to be successful as a country, as a society, is compelling, and increasingly so.
Not knowing is the true
definition
of isolation, and that's why I never knew I was isolated when I was in North Korea.
But I don't have a desire to fit into the current broken
definition
of masculinity, because I don't just want to be a good man.
So we realized, we could cover all of the same topics that we might normally talk about under the guise of healthy relationships education, like, what's a
definition
of sexual consent?
But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that billions of individual acts of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.
This
definition
of beauty is damaging, dangerous and destructive, and we need to explode it immediately.
So how do we change the stigma around looking different or not fitting into this narrow
definition
of beauty?
But many fashion designers continue to reinforce this narrow
definition
of beauty.
So as fashion designers, it's our job to utilize our platform to explode this narrow and restrictive
definition
of beauty.
But people keep talking about taking down "problematic" or "harmful" content, but with no clear
definition
of what they mean by that, including Mark Zuckerberg, who recently called for global regulation to moderate speech.
I coined my own
definition
of success in 1934, when I was teaching at a high school in South Bend, Indiana, being a little bit disappointed, and [disillusioned] perhaps, by the way parents of the youngsters in my English classes expected their youngsters to get an A or a B. They thought a C was all right for the neighbors' children, because they were all average.
I thought about that for quite a spell, and I wanted to come up with my own
definition.
From those things, and one other perhaps, I coined my own
definition
of success, which is: Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.
It's something like this: And I had blocks in the pyramid, and the cornerstones being industriousness and enthusiasm, working hard and enjoying what you're doing, coming up to the apex, according to my
definition
of success.
But it all revolved around that original
definition
of success.
Like economists, you know, their
definition
of rational, that we all act out of our own economic self-interest.
That's our
definition
of a parallel line.
It's a
definition
really of Euclidean space.
Now, a lot of these people would qualify as refugees under the international legal
definition.
But even those who would be refugees under the international
definition
are not going to win asylum in the United States.
So, it would make sense, as a start, to expand the refugee
definition
to include climate refugees, for example.
But they've done more than restrict the refugee
definition.
In fact, by definition, these are decisions about something that will happen to us after we die.
And it forced me to revisit this
definition
that we have of language.
The
definition
at the bottom refers to specialized fields, like medicine, science, tech.
But what most interested me was that
definition
right in the center there: "the system of communication used by a particular community or country."
And I'm not interested in altering this
definition.
The best
definition
would be something like an extreme grace or an extreme humility.
It's a series of characters meant to convey the most amount of meaning with the least amount of characters, which sounds pretty similar to our
definition
of languages: "system of communication used by a community."
All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
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