A quote for family and community in a challenging season

My wish with Outliers is that it makes us understand how much of a group project success is. When outliers become outliers it is not just because of their own efforts. It's because of the contributions of lots of different people and lots of different circumstances— and that means that we, as a society, have more control about who succeeds—and how many of us succeed—than we think. That's an amazingly hopeful and uplifting idea. - Malcom Gladwell

According to Gladwell, it's the extreme that tells us most about the middle.

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Comments

[Dave]

Thanks for posting the Bute inlet story. The deliberate transfer of electricity from public to corporate control coupled with the environmental destruction shows the true course of this government.
You'd think that the ultra right wing idealogues would have learned something from the near meltdown of the world's economy, but no, the catechism still is that profit is the one true God and it will fix all of societies ills.