Easier To Be Good

I do not consider myself a good person. I am lazy and frivolous and inconsiderate, I care too much about intelligence and status, I am a snob and a hypocrite, and I do not call my mother enough. I don't mean this to read as self-hatred, nor a show of false modesty. Among all the people I know there is only a scant handful of people I would consider genuinely good, and so it is unremarkable to me that I wouldn't find myself amongst their number. You do not need to be good to desire more goodness in the world. It is good for everyone when things are good, and when there is more of it — more thoughtfulness, more generosity, more coordination, more care, more beauty, more clarity, more positive sum trades, more sophistication and elegance in our solutions and resolutions. Increasing the amount of goodness in the world is an urgent project. The world really sucks right now, and even in the wealthiest enclaves of the imperial core there is an immense amount of suffering. To reach the healed…

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