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perspective Archives | Kyle Wierks https://www.kylewierks.com/tag/perspective/ One world, united Sun, 02 Feb 2020 01:03:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.kylewierks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-Icon-1-32x32.png perspective Archives | Kyle Wierks https://www.kylewierks.com/tag/perspective/ 32 32 Separating people from institutions https://www.kylewierks.com/separating-people-from-institutions/ https://www.kylewierks.com/separating-people-from-institutions/#comments Sun, 02 Feb 2020 01:03:52 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=886 There is no "us" and "them". There is only "us". Quite frankly, if we ever want to create a world worth inhabiting, there can only ever be an "us" - we are all in this together.

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]]> https://www.kylewierks.com/separating-people-from-institutions/feed/ 1 Anger for social change https://www.kylewierks.com/anger-for-social-change/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:36:53 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=872 Anger can be a tool to motivate action so long as it is directed not at an individual but at the underlying social system that allows this injustice to take place.

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]]> Questioning power dynamics https://www.kylewierks.com/questioning-power-dynamics/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:52:37 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=865 By refusing to accept the socially-accepted balance of power, we can begin to shift the balance of power away from institutions and pre-existing structures back towards the people.

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]]> Question everything https://www.kylewierks.com/question-everything/ Thu, 30 Jan 2020 00:02:38 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=841 For most of us, we were taught to accept truth without questioning it, because we did not have the authority to question it, even though a truth that has not been questioned, reasoned, and investigated is not a truth but an assumption.

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]]> Meaningful debate https://www.kylewierks.com/meaningful-debate/ Fri, 24 Jan 2020 23:52:44 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=806 Modern debate teaches arrogance and inflexibility, which is about as conducive to gaining knowledge and understanding as covering one's eyes is to learning to read. Meaningful debate is when two opposing sides commit to coming to a solution together.

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]]> You might be offended https://www.kylewierks.com/you-might-be-offended/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:34:43 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=779 Ideas are offensive. And it is these offensive ideas that challenge us to change, that inspire us to improve. But we have an obligation to engage respectfully.

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]]> Climate change debates https://www.kylewierks.com/climate-change-debates/ Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:00:46 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=768 We will never be able to address climate change as a whole society until we humble ourselves enough to accept and discuss different perspectives and engage on the topic rather than shut down debate because of close-mindedness.

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]]> Absolute truths in perspective https://www.kylewierks.com/absolute-truths-in-perspective/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 23:17:04 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=761 Truth is a humbling thing. We should all of us seek to know the truth - that search is at the heart of all learning and inquiry - but it requires that we first acknowledge that we may not know the truth and that we may never know it.

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]]> The value of different perspectives https://www.kylewierks.com/the-value-of-different-perspectives/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 23:16:06 +0000 https://www.kylewierks.com/?p=754 The only way that we as individuals can broaden our perspectives, minimize our blind spots, and better understand the world around us is by seeking to understand perspectives that are different from our own, rather than trying to win an argument.

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