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When I was younger and first encountered humanism, I felt like it was a nothing burger. Of course every person is deserving of dignity. Of course. Why bother even saying it?

The older I get, the more I’m struck by just how many people don’t share that core tenet in their world view. I now see it as one of the fundamental divides in our society.

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@what For me, what really drove it home, was a thin little book by an urbanist and architect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_of_Survival

It doesn't seem she writes about that, because she very carefully just describes the observation. But in the end it all comes to the split between the political thinking and the practical thinking.

Systems of Survival - Wikipedia

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@deshipu Ooh interesting. I’ve read some of Death abd Life of Great American Cities, but I honestly didn’t know Jane Jacobs had other books.
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