Bassam Salem
After giving a talk recently, I was inspired to capture 7 principles that are, for all intents and purposes, facts about our society today. What’s more, they’re facts we tend to forget in our day-to-day lives as we judge others and evaluate our world. ____________________ 1. The elderly aren’t a group; they are we. ____________________ […]
Since the inception of social media, it’s been my philosophy to maintain political and ideological neutrality; I don’t plan on changing that today. However, this election has taught me a number of personal lessons about our socioeconomic conditions that belie any particular ideology: 1. There are a lot of disenfranchised people in this country, most […]
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Dear 18-year-old self: In this letter, I want to talk to you a bit about something that’ll increasingly weigh on your mind as you grow older: the notion of society. Society is something we are born into. We don’t choose it. We can’t escape it. But, we can certainly try to influence it; the trick […]