The man on the left donated part of his liver to dying mom, the woman in the center. That’s something that these people will hold dear for life… and which their children will hold dear. It invested them in one another.

And while collectivist ideals have shown themselves to be horrifyingly bad in practice – when they are enforced – we really are invested in each other over the long term. What our generation does will form the world the next generation receives.

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Before going back to the mundane, consider what kind of world we’d like our grandchildren to live in. Consider also that the sum of all our actions will form that world.