Moment
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Would you all like to stand up for a
moment?
When I look back now, I think that that was the
moment
that set me on the path was to writing a book called "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism."
I think it was actually that
moment
that sent me on the journey to interview 300 people of Muslim heritage from nearly 30 countries, from Afghanistan to Mali, to find out how they fought fundamentalism peacefully like my father did, and how they coped with the attendant risks.
And I remember thinking in that
moment
that the bombers made headlines here two years before but this night and these people are as important a story.
Look again at Amel Zenoune's watch, forever frozen, and now please look at your own watch and decide this is the
moment
that you commit to supporting people like Amel.
There's that
moment
when the drill first punctures through the wall and there's this plunge.
So this is the
moment
when I started thinking, okay, cranial drilling, laparoscopic surgery, why not other areas of medicine?
But then there's that
moment
when the drill first punctures through the other side of the wall, and right at that
moment
the wall can't push back anymore.
But what if right at the
moment
of puncture you could pull that tip back, actually oppose the forward acceleration?
How do you keep the tip in place until the
moment
of puncture?
But right at the
moment
of puncture, the tissue can't push back on the tip anymore.
And you'll see that right at the
moment
of puncture, right there, the mechanism unlocks and retracts that tip back.
The
moment
the lights go down is often the best part.
Journaling, or getting those thoughts down on paper, makes it less likely they'll pop up and distract you in the
moment.
But when I was told that the topic was language, I felt that I had to speak about something for a
moment.
But we'll get to that in a
moment.
One of the things that is so profoundly exciting and challenging about this
moment
is that as a result of this power illiteracy that is so pervasive, there is a concentration of knowledge, of understanding, of clout.
Well, this problem, this challenge, is a thing that we must now confront, and I believe that when you have this kind of disengagement, this willful ignorance, it becomes both a cause and a consequence of this concentration of opportunity of wealth and clout that I was describing a
moment
ago, this profound civic inequality.
But even beyond that, it's in the conversations that we have today all around the world in the simultaneous gatherings that are happening on this topic at this moment, and to think about how we can become one another's teachers and students in power.
In that moment, a few things occurred to me.
It's quite beautiful because somehow, this is a gorgeous
moment
for design.
I think that this is a strange
moment.
I try to live mindfully and be present in the
moment.
Collectives like Five Ton Crane come together to share skills and take on complex projects a single artist would never even attempt, from a Gothic rocket ship that appears ready to take off at any
moment
to a fairytale home inside a giant boot complete with shelves full of artist-made books, a blackbird pie in the oven and a climbable beanstalk.
We wanted to know if there was a special part of the brain for recognizing faces, and there was already reason to think there might be such a thing based on this phenomenon of prosopagnosia that I described a
moment
ago, but nobody had ever seen that part of the brain in a normal person, so we set out to look for it.
And I realized, in this
moment
of revelation, that what these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success, each in his own right.
There's a term called metafiction, and that's just stories about stories, and meta's having a
moment
now.
Its last big
moment
was probably in the 1960s with novelists like John Barth and William Gaddis, but it's been around.
And even that supposedly honest moment, I would argue, is in service of the lie, but it's supposed to foreground the artificiality of the fiction.
It was at this
moment
that a light bulb went off in my head, and I thought, "Wow, I see this in my cancer cells every day, when it comes to their movement."
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