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So it brings me to my main take-home message, which is we can avert a tragedy of the commons.
Because what we realize today is that modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy.
As my physical therapist likes to say, "Every step is a tragedy waiting to happen."
After the tragedy, survival stories began to emerge.
The last 20 years has been the age of intervention, and Afghanistan is simply one act in a five-act tragedy.
And the real tragedy was, if you look through her records, she had been seen in four or five other health care institutions in the preceding two years.
In reality, most drug users have a story, whether it's childhood trauma, sexual abuse, mental illness or a personal tragedy.
So I did the only thing my frantic seven year-old brain could think to do to avert this tragedy.
This routine surgery that many of you have probably experienced, and others are probably the product of, has now become a tragedy.
And after umpteen surgeries and, you can imagine, really unspeakable tragedy, he just said, "That's it.
Now the tragedy about climate change is that we can solve it with a simple, honest approach of a gradually rising carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies and distributed 100 percent electronically every month to all legal residents on a per capita basis, with the government not keeping one dime.
It's one tragedy compounding another.
And the tragedy is that disease is still rampant in that area today.
It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.
It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
And in a way, Africa is more than a tragedy, in more ways than one.
There's another enduring tragedy, and that tragedy is that there are so many people, so many governments, so many organizations who want to help the people in Africa.
If there was an incident today where a hundred kids died in some tragedy or where, say, a hundred kids were kidnapped and then rescued by special forces, I mean, it would be all over the news for a week, right?
Can you imagine the tragedy that could possibly happen with that?
Karl Marx saw this as the tragedy of capitalism, the alienation of the worker from the product of his labor.
This was a tragedy, but it really forced us to refocus what it is that we were doing.
Our problem and our tragedy is that in these hyper-partisan times, the mere fact that one side says, "Look, there's an asteroid," means that the other side's going to say, "Huh?
That's our tragedy.
Which is a tragedy because there are employers who can use pools of very flexible local people booked completely ad hoc around when that person wants to work.
He was three when he became a mixed drink of one part left alone and two parts tragedy, started therapy in eighth grade, had a personality made up of tests and pills, lived like the uphills were mountains and the downhills were cliffs, four-fifths suicidal, a tidal wave of antidepressants, and an adolescent being called "Popper," one part because of the pills, 99 parts because of the cruelty.
There's a sense of deep tragedy that goes with these things, and it happened to lots of birds that people loved.
There's been an awful lot of silence in male culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children, hasn't there?
I hope that, going forward, men and women, working together, can begin the change and the transformation that will happen so that future generations won't have the level of tragedy that we deal with on a daily basis.
But I think it's a tragedy when one of them doesn't see the other.
We all saw the tragedy that happened in Boston.
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