In my presentations of flirtation with philosophy I make use of a lot of TED talks to encourage thought and participation. I have just listened to a woman talking on the three injustices of the past three centuries. in the 19th century it was slavery, in the 20th totalitarianism and this century the 21st it is oppression of women. Following her travels to various parts of the world, Sheryl Wu Dunn illustrates her talk with the stories of women she had met and finished her talk with an anecdote of a woman who had seen things no human being should see and who had remained strong until she returned home to New York where looking out of her window she saw a bird feeder. She broke down under the realization that we provide birds with food in winter.The contrast for her was too great to bear.
Responsibility
30 Thursday Aug 2012
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