Issues
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If we want today to build technology that can overcome the challenges that we face, we have to throw our entire selves into understanding the
issues
and into building solutions that are as human as the problems they aim to solve.
And if we're going to solve problems and look at the world really differently, whether it's in governance or business or environmental issues, job creation, maybe we can think about how to reframe those problems as having both things be true.
I've talked to a lot of directors of state economic development agencies about these issues, a lot of legislators about these
issues.
Of course you can't separate this out from
issues
like social diversity, mass transit, the ability to be able to walk a convenient distance, the quality of civic spaces.
And this became a vicious cycle that ended up causing so much pain and joint issues, I had trouble holding anything.
I'm going to share with you a paradigm-shifting perspective on the
issues
of gender violence: sexual assault, domestic violence, relationship abuse, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children.
That whole range of
issues
that I'll refer to in shorthand as "gender violence issues," they've been seen as women's
issues
that some good men help out with, but I have a problem with that frame and I don't accept it.
I don't see these as women's
issues
that some good men help out with.
In fact, I'm going to argue that these are men's issues, first and foremost.
A lot of men hear the term "women's
issues"
and we tend to tune it out, and we think, "I'm a guy; that's for the girls," or "that's for the women."
It's almost like a chip in our brain is activated, and the neural pathways take our attention in a different direction when we hear the term "women's issues."
This is one of the ways that dominant systems maintain and reproduce themselves, which is to say the dominant group is rarely challenged to even think about its dominance, because that's one of the key characteristics of power and privilege, the ability to go unexamined, lacking introspection, in fact being rendered invisible, in large measure, in the discourse about
issues
that are primarily about us.
I understand that a lot of women who have been trying to speak out about these issues, today and yesterday and for years and years, often get shouted down for their efforts.
Now, it's easier said than done, because I'm saying it now, but I'm telling you it's not easy in male culture for guys to challenge each other, which is one of the reasons why part of the paradigm shift that has to happen is not just understanding these
issues
as men's issues, but they're also leadership
issues
for men.
Because ultimately, the responsibility for taking a stand on these
issues
should not fall on the shoulders of little boys or teenage boys in high school or college men.
Adult men with power are the ones we need to be holding accountable for being leaders on these issues, because when somebody speaks up in a peer culture and challenges and interrupts, he or she is being a leader, really.
But on a big scale, we need more adult men with power to start prioritizing these issues, and we haven't seen that yet, have we?
And one of the ways to do that is to say there's an awful lot of men who care deeply about these
issues.
But there's so many men who care deeply about these issues, but caring deeply is not enough.
Many times, the prison authorities have denied ever having
issues
of drug abuse,
issues
of sodomy, so many
issues
they would deny that it ever happens.
There were
issues
of bad food being served as I recall that some of the food I ate is just not good for a human being.
This gives us the chance to imagine an entirely different kind of society, a society where the creators and the discoverers and the performers and the innovators come together with their patrons and their financiers to talk about issues, entertain, enlighten, provoke each other."
And to my surprise, I realized the importance of environmental issues, which Charles Lindbergh devoted the last third of his life to, and preparing that paper did me a lot of good.
Let's imagine that European citizens actually have the power to vote directly for a European president, or citizen juries chosen by lottery which can deliberate on critical and controversial issues, a European-wide referendum where our citizens, as the lawmakers, vote on future treaties.
We are humbled that this has roots in Kenya and that it has some use to people around the world trying to figure out the different
issues
that they're dealing with.
It involves an ongoing struggle, a continual questioning of what we think we know, a wrestling with
issues
and ideas.
Companies that have been studied for willful blindness can be asked questions like, "Are there
issues
at work that people are afraid to raise?"
Population
issues.
So, in order to understand these issues, where do we find our phosphorus?
Indeed, this is one of those rare
issues
that unites the left and the right.
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