"Love and companionship, in spite of and through hardship, will not be acquired through a sperm bank sorted by SAT score. The terror and the tenderness of parental love will not be enhanced by private schools charging Ivy-League tuition. The ecstasy and the groundedness of religious devotion cannot be obtained at the expense of another. In fact, each of these can only be obtained by looking beyond the personal immediacy of competition to recognizing ourselves as in relationship, embedded in community. It is just this community that the competitiveness cult threatens, by driving us to instrumentalize ourselves and our lives."- Jonathan Coppage, via Stowe Boyd
23 March 2013
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