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Stargazing
Our eyes glisten with wonder. Who are we? Who do we want to be? Is it worth the effort?Should I have tried harder to keep her?Less hard?Have my sacrifices been worth it?Will my current ones pay off?After a while, the stars are aesthetically pleasing but stop conferring meaning to what’s going on down here. Even if we knew exactly how the stars operated, could they bestow love or justice or fulfillment?To see the parallax of the stars behind the silhouette of my girlfriend as she ascends a set of stairs to a patio is much more fulfilling.The stars as a context or backdrop is much more fitting. Nature’s Christmas lights…
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On Climate Justice
I will discuss herein my beliefs about climate justice without thoroughly justifying them. I will justify them in future posts. Justice is a synchronic condition that society either meets or doesn’t at a given moment in time. That is to say: either society synchronizes in the correct way or it is not a just society. The correct way is simply the society’s being the way it ought to be. The definition of a just society, then, is a society that is the way it ought to be. That sounds vague but it shows us a surprising lot about what a just society would be like and what we ought to…
