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...David Belden The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness , by Roughgarden Joan University of California Press , 2009 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2009 Culture BOOKS | FILM | MUSIC [BOOKS...

...KABIR HELMINSKI Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 O nly the self liberated from selfishness can bring about the new earth. Selfish selfhood is a prison. Our prejudices and attachments to wealth and power form the walls of this prison. Our activism will never succeed unless we...

... that would have protected education and prioritized caring for others over maximizing the bottom line and looking out for number one. Few of us have any ability to offset the massive indoctrination toward materialism and selfishness offered by the mass media. The call to maximize self-interest...

... proaches, movement in the direction of greater empathy and compassion, combined with a hefty dose of self-love, is a sign of significant progress. When we apply this general perspective to capitalism’s insistence that people are fundam entally selfish, the economic system comes out looking...

... a r i l y r u l e d b y they think or know about evolution, odds are you’ll get something the inescapable biological dictate of “survival of the about “survival of the fittest,” “selfish genes,” or what a CBS/New fittest” and “selfish genes”? Or do we have...

... that represent a societal assault on generosity and a glorification of selfishness. These shows send a clear message: “this is the real world, so either develop the skills to dominate others or be prepared to be dominated yourself.” The media and education system massively reinforce these values...

... crises unfolding as the values of a narrow scientism and economism organized through a global system of selfishness and materialism lead people to embrace solutions and ways of life that are both psychologically and environmentally destructive (witness the 2016 rise of quasi-fascist movements in the U.S...

... support for a protest against the policies and acts o f the social relations based in selfish, as opposed post-cap italist, post-patriarchal, post- Israeli government, but I can’t help but to genial, genes. individualistic social order that prioritizes think that protesting...

... Washington, D.C and “YES, WE CAN” (and a major fac­ won him the presidency into a reality that guides his adminis­ tor in most people’s support for him) was his vision of a new way tration at every level. This editorial is in part our contribution to of being together: an alternative to the selfishness...

..., and without the love and care they badly need and deserve. It is our task to help them understand that the alienation in their lives, and the background assumptions that contribute to the materialism and selfishness that surrounds them, is a function of the capitalist marketplace. That cannot happen, however...

... selfish it is after you leave a place to doubt that it could function without you. That it all goes on was enough to make me crack, facing the grotto I’d stood around with my class, a hundred of us, in Easter white in another season, singing as the May queen and her court offered flowers to the stone...

... social and economic policies that have resulted in their condition, benefiting the rich at the expense of the 99 percent. Today it’s important to understand that the “downtrodden”— those who are hurt by the materialism and selfishness built into the very ethos of global capitalism—are not only...

...—and thus predomi­ nantly unconscious—certainties in Western late capitalist ideology. Selfish Genes or Communicative, Cooperative Genes? M o d e rn socio bio lo g y spu r r e d a fu n d a m en ta l revival o f t h e c o n v ictio n tha t humanity is driven in its innermost by primary aggression...

... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 Vote to Change the Culture in America Replace a Culture o f Materialism and Selfishness with a Culture o f Love and Generosity Network o f S p iritu a l Progressives Brian Jensen valuable...

... 27 6 2011 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2011 When most people think of evolution, the first thing that comes to mind is either survival of the fittest or selfish genes. Yet the psychologist and system theorist David Loye argues this is a misreading of the gist of evolutionary theory...

... more imagi­ selfishness and “looking out for number one” that led so many of native and radical than the Obama administration is likely to the “big guys” in the economy to loot their own firms for the sake come up with. Some will argue that the problem is Obama him­ of personal...

.... They are defeated by better ideas—a more attractive and compelling vision.” Unfortunately neither Obama nor any other Western leader has such a vision. They can’t allow themselves to understand that the selfishness and materialism built into the neoliberal worldview and embedded in the daily practices of global...

... undercover activist took a photo of a sow in a gestation crate, and next to her number (#21288; no name), was scrawled, “Fat Selfish Bitch”. Here, too, we find a fluidity of movement between references to women and references to sows. From a sexualized female who “wants” to give you another baby through...

... to model—really model—a new politics of ethical and moral transformation before our nation forever falls from the high ground of moral purpose into the slimy swamp of corruption, cynicism, and selfishness that has all but overwhelmed us in these last tragic years. Make it your mission...

... to understand that the “downtrodden”—those who are hurt by the materialism and selfishness built into the very ethos of global capitalism—are not only the homeless, the jobless, the underemployed, the African Americans who are often targets of random violence from police or others, but also those who can’t...