mass incarceration
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Who are you going to trust, this stack of research papers or your deeply ingrained experience of the world?
The particles composing your brain should follow the laws of physics, but can you choose to believe that you can make no choices?
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Teaching meditation in two minutes or less (while walking through a jail).
With a repeated phrase to focus on, any of us might calm our wandering minds.
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On currency
Money is an illusion, but the consequences of not having it are very real.
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On dealing.
For deftly navigating the vagaries of supply and demand, M.B.A. students are praised. Dealers wind up in jail.
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On unintended consequences.
Drones can keep soldiers safe, but they put everyone else at risk.
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On meditation.
Meditating seems like it’s just blinking for more time … but more is different.
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On white supremacist vegetables and watchful eyes.
There have always been watchful eyes on our farmers market — it’s down the street from the county jail.
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On writing.
By writing, we can prove that we really do exist. But not everyone in jail has access to even as much as a sharpened pencil.
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On re-watching The Matrix, twenty years later.
The Matrix was, and is, an incredible film … but now, after all the school shootings, it’s hard for me to watch.
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On Brett Wagner’s “Apocalypse Blaze.”
Nuclear fallout is a killer. But my friend was felled by the apocalypse that’s already upon us.
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