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All that we observe that is wrong with the world—a living display of our own ignorance and complacency, compounded across time, generation after generation.

For every modicum of frustration that we feel with others, with the present circumstances, and with the status quo, we have to redirect toward ourselves equally. Not merely so that we can avoid devolving into hypocrisy, but more so because it serves to remind us that we have as much power to destroy the world around us as we do to make it better. And in every action and in every thought is a choice between the two.