Where ethics and politics clash with society

I feel so much energy, enthusiasm, and inspiration within minutes of getting to NY. I quickly find friends that I haven’t seen in too long and spend the night (and the morning…) effortlessly traversing ideas that have been on our minds. Times like this make me feel like I should never sleep. There are so many great conversations and ideas to be had.

NYC tempts me once again. Oh, it would be a charm to live here.

I conversed with so many intellectual, socially aware people this evening. There is so much to learn about meeting people, understanding them, finding shared interests, and building lasting connections. It is amazing how meeting a few new people can re-energize one to network and discover other potential friends.

I spend so much time frustrated by how apolitical many of the people that I meet are. I’m not sure if I would encounter that less here than in Boston. The structure of society is so fundamental to the well-being of the populace and yet so many people don’t think about the politics and ethics behind the decisions they make. I have countless friends who have worked on defense department projects, for finance firms, for advertising companies, and so on. I don’t want a world full of missiles and financial “innovations” where the space we inhabit is blanketed in advertisements, but this is the world that we have arrived at. Many of the brightest people apply their efforts to these ends. They spend the hours of their lives making tools that often end up causing more harm than benefit. It needs to stop. There are so many projects to work on that will help people and we need to focus on those instead of this economy that is built to help corporations at the expense of the thinker, the creator, the artist, the teacher, the learner, etc. in each of us.