Gaza, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Menlo Park: An inquiry into injustice

Let’s break our silence and openly discuss our questions, hopes, and fears around what is happening in places around the world devastated by constant and consistent conflict: exploitative ideologies, war, terrorism, famine, genocide, and colonialism. What about our own country’s history of slavery and colonialism? How do we know what to do? What does it mean to “think globally while living locally”? What are our obligations to the injustices happening abroad and at home? How may we live with ourselves, balancing compassion with responsibilities to ourselves and to our own cultivation and self-transcendence? How do we keep from lying to ourselves? How to we manage disagreements within fields of apparently unsolvable problems? To what extent is one’s personal experience political? Is it true that it’s impossible to remain neutral, that there is no in-between? What about the loneliness and suicide epidemics plaguing the Silicon Valley and San Mateo County—are these mysteries related? How may we craft our private lives to become beautiful and our public lives as humane? Join us for an open conversation about these dramatic existential questions.

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