@wb2ifs That’s right. It’s not incumbent upon us to complete the Great Work, but neither are we at liberty to desist from it, etc.
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@adamgreenfield you can do it if you want. no one can stop you.
@bea Meh. No interest, no ability, no perspective or particular point of traction on any matter of interest – whereas I like what I already do, and have developed a threshold level of competence for it over a great many years. Horses for courses.
@adamgreenfield sure of course, i'm not saying to give up your life and go work in a laboratory or anything, just that if you stumble on a question nobody has answered, and manage to answer it, or you see something nobody has seen, and you share with the world? then you're part of it too.
@adamgreenfield reminds me of #christian mystic Howard Thurman’s “WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH” “All my life have eaten fruit from trees that I did not plant , why should I not plant trees to bear fruit for those who may enjoy them long after I’m gone?”
@wb2ifs That’s right. It’s not incumbent upon us to complete the Great Work, but neither are we at liberty to desist from it, etc.
@adamgreenfield yes but there is intentionality. We bend the arc towards justice it doesn’t just go. I am more than the answer to the prayers of my enslaved ancestors. I am the result of their actions. I was born in Brooklyn and not in the south because my family wanted something Better than #segregation and they had the means to make it so.
@adamgreenfield What will we dream of and for? What seeds will we plant? I'd really like us to stop blunting the dreams of young folks toward getting #jobs.What I want is to see is the focus of #STEMEducation shift towards making #firstcontact and away from getting a job pushing papers from one side of the desk or screen to the other.