Non-fungible tokens, despite being a distant reality, are a valuable thought experiment: What does the world look like when individuals can purchase a stake in that which others create?
In the end, Pérez Jiménez transformed the city, but he did not transform hearts and minds. Although the buildings still stand, his government’s legacy most certainly does not.
Much like the challenges that plagued the United States last year, many of the problems we are facing in 2021 will require us to find synergy between systems and perspectives that often clash — including between the public and private sectors, the individual and the greater population, and federal and state governments. Understanding these three sets of dynamics will ensure a better approach toward accelerating pandemic mitigation and recovery.
After five minutes with literally anyone, I’ll look up and be like, you’re Fire Nation. You’re Water. It’s almost like that’s my manual for understanding human behavior.
To be remembered is to defy the odds, to antagonize the structures which seek to undermine our communities, to love and serve even when it is hard. Blanca does not seek to be remembered for her successes, but rather for the impact she has had on those she loves. For Blanca, being remembered means overcoming a world built on her oppression.
Complaints about Harvard's massive endowment are common, but that ire is misdirected; a shift in focus would better actualize any changes student activists want.
ATLA’s childlike ideal shows us a model for returning to our original enlightenment. It shows us that we can be less like an arrow, and more like Sokka’s boomerang — we can finally embark home, to the child hero already waiting within us.
Spongebob serves paradoxically as a figure of queer disruption, an embrace of radical love and queered innocence, even in its commodified stat – not because of its independence from its means of production, but the consciousness of its fantasies.
Until multinational corporations are held accountable for their crimes, illegal logging will continue to devastate forests, threaten indigenous people, and make overcoming the climate crisis ever more difficult.
