![]() ![]() "Until you start believing in yourself,you aint going to have a life" emotions turn my inspirations into determination. Song is so inspirational but emotional at the same time. This speech gets to me Comment by user426283038 I always listen to this part before i play paintball Comment by pujin7 This is the best speech ever Comment by bigblack13 If you like this speech, listen my remix: Comment by tyler-68-69 Genre Inspirational Comment by JORGE BAUTISTA Then you can retreat to your bubble, if you wishbut you will return wiser for it.Rocky Balboa gives an inspiring speech to his son. Be around people who arent like you, because they all bear the image of God. Eat at Cracker Barrel or shop at Whole Foods non-ironically. Or if long-distance travel is off the menu, take small steps. Visit New York or Boston or San Francisco, and see more than just the touristy places. Think it possible that there might be good reasons for such an arrangement. Visit those large, mostly-empty places that have as many senators as New York and California even though they have a small fraction of the population. Ask yourself: which scholars and commentators representing diverse viewpoints can you follow on Twitter or like on Facebook? This will help you avoid being the kind of citizen the philosopher Jason Brennan calls a hooligan and become more of the citizen he would call a Vulcan.Īnother good way to move in this direction is to look at how you curate your social media feeds. Move inward and upward away from the red and orange rectangles and toward the yellow and green rectangles. Its an imperfect representation of the political spectrumreaders of Reason, for example, are probably to the left of the Democratic party on sex, drugs, and immigrationbut its a good place to start. If you want to know whats reliable, t he Media Bias Chart is a good place to start. What are the leading journals of opinion with which you are inclined to disagree? Read more of those. Part of the whole conversation which is depicted in the scene presents highly motivational and inspirational speech of the movie protagonist. I too get a chuckle or gasp in horror at the absurd things TV talking heads say, but what you see on Jimmy Kimmel or Fox News isnt the best representation of the underlying ideas. Importantly, listen to the smartest and most thoughtful people you can find. ![]() Really listen, and think it possible that they came to their seemingly-crazy views for non-crazy reasons. This is one of the many forms of democratic participation that dont involve casting a ballot. Let Rocky Balboas speech after his boxing license was denied be your muse. On what grounds do they prevent people from doing their jobs? How are they to know the tradeoffs people should make? There might be reasons based on incomplete or asymmetric information for governments to get involved in quality certification and risk assessment, but they dont need to be prohibiting people from doing their work. Or your City Council or County Commission meetings. Maybe you cant get to DC, but you can get to your states licensing board meetings. K Street in Washington, DC is where policies and votes are bought and sold. Occupy K Streetor your state or local equivalent. Here are three complements to the ballot that will, I suspect, be more effective in the long run. Voting isnt the only way to effect social changeindeed, it isnt necessarily a very good one given what we know about voter irrationality and the like. Surely, I thought, there is a better way than this.įortunately, there is. ![]()
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