"As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home."
-Jack Kornfield

03 December 2008

Kissinger on Exceptionalism


"A country that has always prided itself on exceptionalism will not abandon the moral convictions by which it defined its greatness. But America needs to learn to discipline
itself into a strategy of gradualism that seeks greatness in the accumulation of the
attainable."

-Kissinger, December Economist

From December's Harper's Index:


Tons of international food aid provided to Sudan last year: 548,400


Estimated tons of food Sudan produces and exports to other countries each year: 534,000


Chance that a person worldwide lacks adequate drinking water due to socioeconomic conditions: 1 in 6


Percentage of Fortune 500 companies that own a Web address in which their name is followed by “sucks.com”: 26