1.08.2018

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks : How we can face the future without fear, together


Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks at TED2017
How we can face the future without fear, together  (transcript)
Summary
The speaker said, "Is it better what we worship in our time is the "self", the "me", and the " I"?
We, now, feel fear, weakness, and loneliness because we have too much of the "I" and too little of the "we".
We human need to interact face to face, to be altruistic and create friendship, trust, loyalty, and love.  However, those can't be accomplished alone.
Now is the time, that the "us" of relationship, identity, and responsibility are to strengthen the future "us".
Relationship teaches us that we have to need to encounter face to face, we realize that we can disagree strongly but yet still stay friends, and we discover that the people not like us are just people.  1)
We mustn't stop telling the story of our identity. It leads our identity to weaken and we feel threatened by the stranger.  2)
We all share collective responsibility for our collective future. 3) Someone does something for you is a delusion.
Those are the ways to be able to face the future without fear.
What we have to think about is not self-help but other-help.

Words in this story
ontology /noun/ the part of philosophy that studies what it means to exist
inaugural /adj/ marking the beginning of an institution, activity, or period of office.  opening, first, launching
identity /noun/ the fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
ideology /noun/ a system of ideas and ideals, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. beliefs, ideas, ideals, princ

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