Our insignificance is insignificant. If anything it makes our individual choices stronger in knowing that this tiny twinkle is all we’ll ever have to shine with.
Most things (change) happens through happy happenstance and it is up to use to increase our opportunities for those coincidences to happen. Living a circular secluded lifestyle will never get you anywhere if you don’t make connections with others.
Philosophy has a place in every discipline but not for philosophy’s sake. If it doesn’t have relevance or serve some purpose then it is not useful. However, it is extremely helpful for shifting lenses and ways of thinking to see differently or come up with new solutions.
Everyone has a hard time reconciling personal decisions and larger societal structures/outcomes. It is us up to us as anthropologists to help people bridge that gap.
Everything is inherently political (“the personal is political”) even though it is oftentimes hard to see those connections. Cultivating a thoughtfulness about our daily actions could help counteract the mindless consumer practices that we are socialized into.
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