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Capitalism has not flourished most where there was a spirit of greed. It has flourished most where there was a spirit of stewardship—a sense that we are responsible to make the world a better place. That—not greed—is what produces a capitalism that thrives.

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Link. Her husband, serving the military expresses anger with wife but pledges to stand by her.

From the CNN Belief Blog. 

NY Times Obit. 

One of the NY Times “Room for Debate” things. Link. 

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I found this to be a fascinating article and it brought up issues I had never thought about. There are also some very strong competing narratives:

1. Is identity received (either by society, family, religion, genetics) or achieved (expression, choice, aspirations)?

2. The sexual revolution gave nearly a complete green light to women chosing or expressing themselves in nearly every area of male behavior: dress, sexual aggressiveness and/or promiscuity, sports, drinking, cussing, smoking, career, etc. A huge piece of women’s liberation was “a woman can __________ like a man, period.” but of course it didn’t go the other way.

3. Pathology is both expanding (many choices in the past that were considered to be moral issues are now pathology, not morality) but also retreating (out of boundary gender expression viewed as choice rather than pathology). Fascinating.

Great piece in the New Yorker.