the idea that the responsibility to protect can offer anything to the people of syria or that it stands in support of an idea of accountable or popular representative or democratic syrian government is totally ridiculous ok stephen we have to dissenting voices here how do you come out on this here because there are so many examples out there what about brainwave why why can't to an outside country and say you know you've been invaded by your neighbor here you have an opaque government why don't we have a humanitarian intervention to save the people of bahrain what about gaza why can't we have a country to go in there and protect gazans when israel attacks them i mean it seems to be full of double standards go ahead. well there are double standards here in a sense if you look at them in that way but can i just go back to responsibility versus rights there is no i as an international lawyer i look at the the way that this particular so-called norm has developed over the last thirteen years or so and it was really kicked off by a commission that met after the nato intervention over kosovo

and the idea was that this was the beginning. wrim not encouraged to write and have their own careers. it's so important to get a sense of the history of the time. did you have a question? >> he >> no. >> yes. >> especially focusing on the time period in itself with women writers, we so many times in literature you think about kate cho pin. -- security was their marriage. their security was in that household. and so if we're really thinking about the pivotal moment of women at that point in time, this was absolutely monumental to say the least. >> no question about it. the idea is you have to kind of get a sense what she was doing and why she was doing it. in terms of the literary merit, thank you, i was there. i was just messing with you guys. in terms of the literary merit of her work, many people came after her for saying she created very simplistic stereotypes but that was indeed her purpose. a lot of critics dismissed there was very poor novel writing, how dare you. i understand what you're trying to do but you can do it bet

the idea is you're capturing what the story is about. it's about slavery. when hair ret beecher stowe wrote this story, what do you think was in her mind? help me out. was she trying to like not be offensive or was she trying to be enlightening? what was she thinking? here you go. >> i think that she was trying to shock people and she's an abolitionist. she was trying to show the slavery -- the evil slavery. >> absolutely. now in her -- thank you. in her doing that she painted -- this is an early review of her work. she painted a very, very simplistic view of slavery. you had the kind of good slave -- i don't know why i'm going to him when i say that. the good slave owner and then you had the evil slave -- not you. you had the evil slave owner and you had the evil slave catcher. that was basically what slavery was about. you were at the whim of somebody. it was power. you were under somebody's sway. you were, in fact, a slave. nothing was your own. it tells about the worst parts of slavery, okay? what would be the worst thing then to a mother to have her ch

i thought it was the best idea i had heard. we created a new commission out of that task force that eventually went into the mta, and now at risk and is responsible for it. paul was responsible for that. he advanced this initiative and codified his passion. we have been celebrating his tenacity, resolve, constancy, and faith in this project. paul, i want to thank you for your vision and not giving up on this. i know you have taken a lot of heat from your colleagues, others who were outraged. i want to just say, hat's off to you and the elected family of san francisco. finally, to mayor lee. my department meetings were never found. i have to acknowledge that. i would never acknowledge that as mayor. ed reed was always the first one to come around. i do not know what it is about cars, but we were kindred spirits, reducing the size, increasing the efficiency. i am glad to hear that you have found this fund. thank you, mayor, for making me feel better about my role in this respect. [applause] >> our next guest has told everyone -- h

the idea of we do know why you to forget where you are one to come in. will start to see what is happening behind the scenes. -- you will start to see what is happening behind the scenes. there is the idea of what -- having an interactive digital medium. what you see is a projector and the idea is visitors and employees will go to the projection and play with the interactive -- it interactively. there is a coffee bar off the lobby. it is that space that goes off to the side so people will be able to go in. they feel as though they are not in the lobby. the idea again, it is a powerful idea. the language that is being set up as you saw in that video. the idea of flights being connected. space is being connected by these sources of light. -- the idea of lights being connected. we're also doing it in the ground. you see an l.e.d. source that will take you to the portal and the reception desk and the stairs that connect this space is at two levels. as you progress down the stair, we want to keep in mind where we are. it is a place where we are broadcasting s

the debate was about the status of the rights and legal discourse when the rights were good idea and whether they were and the critical legal position was one that became known as the critique of rights so they had a number of criticisms and concerns about the rights both which had to do with the worries about the way they shape the political consciousness away that they effected the political movements and the response from people became the rebel captivate critical was quite powerful and particularly civil rights from the dispossessed or subordinated groups in very small terms. i found that debate fascinating and i think it was never really dissolved. both sides make that point about the status of the rights when the rights would be useful as opposed to potentially counterproductive both the cost and benefits of right and so one thing that came clear to me was the general conception that rights are just good things. more rights would be better, we should extend the rights to more situations, more people, more contexts and the critical legal studies critique made some severely poll f

the idea is that everybody's affected by the same thing. i'm hoping i didn't hurt my microphone when i put my hands on my chest. it's an important to have appreciation. i'm talking to students about race and they say well, it's not a big deal. is that a point of privilege because for some people, it's a point every day. we talked about personal encounters. that's an important to an understanding of literature. when i talked to you about my personal experience with the n word, i'm old enough to have been on the edge of the civil rights movement. i never saw the a nigger sign, i never saw whites only sign. if i went to the back of the bus, it was because i wanted to. it wasn't because i had no choice. there was no line on the bus that said black people behind this line. thanks to the works of others i never had to experience that. i experienced close enough to have marched for important causes. and for me, the memory of that time even though it is not my own is still alive. now we're several generations from that. it's easy to forget what it

it's the idea of who can use the word. our discussion becomes less about language and more about control and power. yes? it's an important conversation. it's surprising to see how history and then to literature leaves us to contemporary thought because when you think it, if i can control what you think, i can control what happens after that. the fact that we say the "n" word instead of the word nigger, means the control has started. it's not a power of law, it's a power of social engineering. let's see what else we have here. things we're looking at in terms of reviewing where we have gotten to today. this is cartoon by a friend of mine. this is secret asian man. check out the sneakers. he said where the black guy in the green jacket. he has a black friend. he said okay david duke. give me a break. it's more patronizing to use a label for being p.c., politically correct. he's saying his meaning should be taken more toward the word. you have to be sensitive to those might be offended. we have the reason for using the "n" wo

the you know this kind of idea the idea of the the the cult of the of the expert in this idea that we should defer to to see superstars and to math geniuses who who they know better than we do so that was kind of the context in the environment that we were operating in and why so many americans are one reason why so many americans were willing. to believe the falso that they were told by salespeople for these large. banks and of course the other thing is that the time you know there was a lot of respect for places like bank of america and countrywide. but so when you had inside the companies there were folks that they didn't even get to the point of telling the public they were just trying to internal report. work is fraud investigators risk managers compliance officers within places like countrywide and wells fargo and many other of the largest financial institutions they raise these questions they said this particular own appears to be fraudulent it's based on inflated income the signatures on this loan appear to be forged because they don't match up on the other signatures in the l

in the one true they actually use music to break through so the idea that my music out of rome is going to reject. the cia's belief that would be easy to target towards this week. the music was so loud. and it was probably some of the worst talk but they faced. all right chris thank you from the. it's incredible all ending in gold and hearing badge and emotion. go down well i've always liked music i think most people do actually. is it means good luck to me among many other things i love and i've had a chat to to write music partly for a living and largely for fun that's also helping things. it's incredible. in your imagination. christopher soft as a composer for sesame street because his music helps to teach young children how to read and write for forty years he's been working for the famous children's television show during the time he's written more than two hundred songs. their surname. christof awards. and the quirky sesame street residents like. sing his songs lyrics are to do with magic numbers strange words were the names of the colors of these innocent children songs were in q

the house of everyman is his castle. this idea almost 400 years ago when he made the ruling, a castle was not just some torras bought it was a concrete, massive fortress with the lord and soldiers. he is saying these great lords have no more right than the lowest person in england, the same rights and liberties. their home is their castle. so let me and -- not surprisingly saying, he continued his fight a parliament , and when they came was pursuing limits on parliament's rights he gets up on the floor and says when he says he cannot allow our liberties, he strikes at the root, serve thousands and thousands then he read what he called a protestation expressing parliamentary privileges and rights, and it declared that the liberties, franchises, privileges command jurisdiction of parliament are the engine and then divided birthright and inheritance of the subjects of england. the handling and proceeding of these businesses, every house, every member of the house of parliament of right ought to have freedom of speech. the king did no

but there is also the idea of who can use the word. so our discussion becomes less about language and more about control and power, yes? it's an important conversation. it's surprising to see how history and then to literature leads us to contemporary thought. because if i can control what you think, i can control what happens after that. the fact that we say the n-word instead of the word nigger means the control was already started, does it not? it is not a power of law, it's a power of social engineering, yeah? okay. so let's take a look and see what else we have here, see what we're looking at in terms of reviewing where we've gotten to today. this is a cartoon by a good friend of mine. the name of the strip is called "secret agent man" where he's asking them about political correctness because that will be part of our discussion as well. checking out the new sneakers, he said, where is the black guy in the green jacket? he has a black friend. does that offend you, charlie? he says, nope. okay, david duke -- he was the head of the

their work even more publications as the ideas spread you know longer had to identify the author of theidea. it's just out there. so you just discuss about the idea itself, so it is really a sign of the acceptance of his role in the the date and not that everybody agreed with an effective as a minority but, more starter been published the did not attribute even though they copied him word for word down to the typographical errors three but no attribution. and he went far beyond as he talked about allowing the freedom of the war as he went far beyond anybody else at that time to read even among those who wanted coloration the question is whether there was going to be a uniform worship and church of england or whether some protestant sects would be allowed to be a very few wanted any catholics to be allowed to be among the few it wasn't one, not one who wanted atheists to be allowed to read williams -- and they always specifically exempted atheists -- williams allowed what he called and a christian. his impact was enormous not only on people like milton, a generation later, virtually ever

. >>> the congressman's idea to get senators to adopt the plan?> go over with a gun and kill a couple of them. >> nice work, einstein. no literally disproving of his theory is disproved. and the discoverry of planet steam bath where a huge fraction of its mass is made up of water. all that and more now on "countdown." good evening this, is monday, february 27th, 254 days until the 2012 presidential election. less than 24 hours before michigan, rick santorum's campaign is asking democrats to vote for him in the republican primary tomorrow. this after santorum had tan us back to the time when president kennedy asked us to separate church and state while romney remembers events that took place nine months before he was born. the over coming presentation and elect a catholic romney implying that campaigning begins at conception. the normal governor improving in the polls pulling 4 points above santorum romney also looking to crush santorum in arizona with a 17-point lead. in the latest public policy point. and michigan, a far more more important battl

the idea is in here i'm at least hoping you're encouraged in the idea i trust you to come to your own conclusions. you're not supposed to be mirroring my thoughts. you're supposed to look at different ideas and think what you think. do you have to be black to be offended by the word nigger? >> no. >> okay. well, i'm not picking on you guys, although i love you madly y. would you be offended if you're not black? let's deal with it. i heard a source that i rarely hear. please pass the microphone back here. give it to me, young girl. >> because they can have friends that it offends them. >> can you have a personal involvement with people who might be open fend bid the word? >> yeah. >> thank you. someone else. yes? microphone for you right here. is this one working? okay. go for it. >> it's not even just your friends, it's a race, humanity itself. once you bring one person back, you bring everyone back. >> martin luther king. when one of my brothers is in jail, i am in jail also. the idea is that everybody is affected by the same thing. i hope i didn't hurt my microphone when i put my ha

and i'm trying to resonate with an audience the greek's idea of history is not just the recording of things in the past. that seems to be what is the history of the sitcom or history of the footnote or history of the brawl. but recording or memory of things that were preeminent in the past. in the greek sense it's wars and politics. so i wanted to write about war, but in a different way. most military histories look at the strategic consequences of conflict or the tactical ramfications of how battles work on an operational level. i was interested in how battles affects all of us for centuries. there is something strange about battle if you think about it. you put males, young males and you put them in a confined space and you give them for a few hours a license to kill. those who survive, if they live on, that becomes one of themome because time seems to accelerate. the stakes,o one's life. if they're killed, as in the case of my namesake who was killed at 23 at sugar loaf hill, for the next 60 years the family went over that loss and what would have been and what would have been if

one told them they actually use music to break prisoners so the idea that my music at a role in that is kind of outrageous. to keep the cia the leads that would be easy interrogating people if they were this week in. the music was so loud. and it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced. all right chris take it from the top were ready. it's incredible anything goes and hearing badge and national. insurance club go. well i've always liked music i think most people do actually. music means good luck to me among many other things i love that i've had a chat to to write music partly for a living and largely for fun that's also helping people. it's incredible. nation. christopher soft as a composer for sesame street because his music helps to teach young children how to read and write for forty years he's been working for the famous children's television show during this time he's written more than two hundred songs. their surname. for his work christopher has won many awards. in the show the cookies sesame street residents like big bird sing his songs the ricks of today with

what we are doing is keeping the idea alye. but it just seems to me with the outstanding representation from some of the nations and the world's most successful businesses that while chairman camp has opened the door for reform, that it's going to be your responsibility to put your foot in that open door and don't let it close. it's no profile in courage for all of us to say reduce the corporate rates and expand the base. but not my base. i came down here as a tax reformer. and believed me, earned income tax credit, low income housing credit, whatever we can do for our veterans. whatever it is, we have allowed probably $500 million to get involved in what they call extenders. anyone here who doesn't know what the extenders are? or those tax provisions that expire? or at least we say they're going to expire. and all they want to do is to get them in the code. someone said seeing tax law made is like seeing sausage made. you just don't want to see it. now, what i'm suggesting is that if this outstanding group of corporations that

sole purpose of that conference is not to find a way out of the current situation but to promote the idea that the conflicts can only be resolved if i sadly it is i have met with mr assad himself the foreign minister of a parliamentary speaker and with representatives of two opposition organizations i have to say that i did not get the impression that it is the people versus i sat in this conflict the situation is different just a fraction of the people is indeed opposing the regime while the other support mr assad has some quite actively right of while yet another faction does not want syria to fall into chaos or to force a support the regime passively like you are clearly not on the side of armed insurgents or the fish like you they do not support the idea of outside interference you know the situation therefore is not simple it's not black and white nor scenario where a whole nation rises up to overthrow governments they don't like us and see that i can even quote one of the opposition representatives i met with so they believe that the situation cannot be resolved without the regime b

the paper. i didn't know people had teeth. that idea of starting out with something that had all the visual qualities of something in the offline world that people understand. and having it be the most beautiful version of that online. like hyper-real, hyper-luxurious. i understood it because he kept talking about it. that's all he was saying. >> reporter: alexa loved the concept. so in 2007, while james was still a student at harvard, they pulled money from their own savings to start paperless post. >> from inception to launch, we had a little bit of a slow road because i was in school for a lot of the time and building a team as a first-time entrepreneur was one of the most difficult things we had to do. it took us about a year and a half to get to a place where we could allow outside users to come on and use the site. >> reporter: the idea quickly took off, gaining traction and new customers every time someone received a paperless post invitation. jonah peretti, co-founder of "the huffington post," was so impressed when he received o

of negotiating with the regime and it seems this council was created specifically to promote the idea of military intervention . however according to other syrian opposition organizations it has very little influence in syria and is very weakly represented on syria's political scene with these it is only one of the opposition groups comprised of syrians and i have no influence or presence in the country there are other groups each one viewing itself as the most significant but again according to a representative of the opposition these organizations have no control over the whole insurgency for instance syria has so-called protest committees and some of these aren't connected to any opposition groups we may have their own agenda they demanded the regime change its policies they demanded i see in free elections are they do not necessarily identify themselves with specific opposition movements in other words the opposition is very fragmented and you thank all those are different some groups believe in thoughts with the regime others thank you pointless some believe a constitution would

it's -- it's a shift away from the typical civics idea of the way government works. now, when one adopts that rule, yes, there is a greater responsibility to think about the range of consequences. someone needs to do it. i understand that typically this thing suspect one that it may seem unfair to see the advocate has to take on that responsibility along with the other responsibilities they were already taking on. there is a broad question that there is a question raised any time we begin to describe a particular section of rights which is which issues do you get described in terms of rights, which is used -- is it plausible to describe in terms of rights, and gimp the fact that -- given the fact that the rights analysis typically understands the right to be -- put it as a trump, something that takes precedence over other considerations, something that jumps the cue, it's a right, it's an entitlement, you have to do this, and then you worry about the other stuff that gets put into the consideration of competing, concerns, and tradeoffs, and log rolling, but rights ar

you got the idea. they are gorgeous. they are easety get them in red and pink and get them in a range of other colors. >> you can check that way. get them at the local farmers market. where else? do they say something if you picked flowers up in the grocery store for instance will it say where they are from? or do you have to ask the person? >> these have a little grown in california label. sometimes you can ask they might know they might not. a good seal to look for and when i picked these up at safe way i didn't see flowers with a vera florist seal. it's a little check mark, blue check mark with a yellow flower on top. you see that you know it's certified organic. it's sustainably grown. workers are treated well which is a problem down in south america. >> you can remove the tasteful plastic wrapper and give them a cute old bow from christmas. let's start with the chocolates next. >> chocolates. >> that's another one people run out and buy the most expensive chocolate and it's in a fancy box and how do you make that gre

the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures

i was trying to play with the idea of what you see and the direction you read. when you start mixing these different groups of people, different cultures, i like the idea. you can comment on somebody else's culture or someone else's understanding about culture. >> one of the hopes we have for visitors is that they go away taking a better understanding with the broadest and the breadth of issues impacting both the asian and latin communities here in california and how they spell out into the larger fabric of the communities we live and work in. >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my i

but as i see the opposition groups active in syria those represented into mask is are against the idea of military intervention of the libyan scenario is not popular here even those groups that want to side go on but you do not support the idea of foreign military intervention and they believe the libyan scenario would result in chaos and loss of control. they insist that syria is different from libya in that the foundation for democracy has been laid there that the authorities have a concept of democratic procedure with them i think that these groups want to deal with syria's internal affairs on their own to deal with it at the same time they are desperate to a point because the situation feels like a dead end i mean the authorities are pursuing their own goals. the armed opposition force use its own goals and it's very hard to upset this negative stability as i would call it i think in order to begin a political process that would change the regime and at the same time reconcile the regime with syrian society. was that it was. designed to keep you in your our world as a prison. no yo

the idea is that we are having an impact on public policy and changing the debate and providing ideas to policy makers. is an important public service. >> i was not commenting on the merits of the case. i just did not think it makes as much difference as to think it does. if you want to get rich, do not go into the think tank business. there are better ways to do it. it is good that we know what everybody makes. is not that lucrative of a career. >> i agree the tax assumption is not particularly important. if it went away i think the institutions would survive and continue pretty much as they are. the cost structures are a little different. the nation -- the new republic, the national review are all tax profit organizations. there are not not for profit. >> i in just wondering whether one of the elephants in the room is an just whether think tanks are seen as marketing organs but devaluing the research they produce in the actual analysis they produce in service of their mission. the best example i can think would be maybe two years ago when the heritage foundation released its analysi

the idea of freedom of speech. any group that looks like it is speech,to sencensor expression, whatever, and up looking like the people wanting to burn the which is in the 1600's. what happened there is the instinctive "live and let live" element within the out american culture ended up ultimately fighting with the marketplace. while the religious or spiritually-based morality and of being on one side, the more libertarian or, if you will, at first amendment fundamentalist aspect, which is very significant and and of pushing back -- and ends up pushing back against the traditional christian morality. "there is a line in "alice in wonderland" when alice is asking about some moral. >> everything has a moral if only you can find it. religiously based morality versus market reality -- i do not think that is the correct way to put the problem. we have many religiously-based moralities. what catholics for free choice pink about advertising for contraceptives and what the u.s. catholic conference for bishop thinks about it

anthony joined the provision party. a deadly idea in san francisco. as the foundation of the economy. and >> anything that touched on the possibility of prohibition was greatly and popular. >> the first campaign was a great effort, but not a success. >> the war was not over. less than one decade later, a graphic protests brought new life to the movement. >> women's suffrage, the republican convention in oakland, this time it was the private sector response. 300 marched down the streets of the convention center. women were entitled to be here. >> joining together for another campaign. >> women opened a club in san francisco. it was called the votes for women club. if she could get the shopkeepers to have lunch, she could get them to be heard literature. the lunch room was a tremendous success. >> it was the way that people thought about women willing to fight for a successful campaign. what happened was, the social transformation increase the boundary of what was possible, out word. >> there were parades and rallies, door to door candidacies, reaching e

but anyway, that's the idea. the bhagavad-gita - that's the one where the arjuna is in - the upanishads is first - bhagavad-gita is where we see arjuna and krishna on the field of battle. and of course, the bhagavad-gita is all part of a vast, vast- the mahabharata is a vast grouping of literature. so just a taste, if you come across those terms and you're reading some of the text that inform, that embody that whole - these answers that we're just beginning to touch on today. we've stated that one of the key purposes or objectives of beliefs and believers is that well after this class, if hinduism interests you, if it's something that you'd like to continue to explore using your world view analysis skills, these are some of the texts you might look into and follow through if you want to see the incredible depth and detail that they go into with these answers. any other comments or questions before we meet some - another flavor of hinduism? yeah, janet? >> i just want to say one more thing about yoga. i do hatha yo

praise the lord. [ applause ] >> the idea to care for the poor, the idea that slavery swrois wrong, these are not imported times. they do not do the right thing in charge of god's ambition. we go with the flow. in wilburforce's day, going with the flow meant slavery, that raf cans are not fully human. in nazi germany, it meant supporting the view that jews are not fully human. so whom do we say is not fully human today? who is expendible to us? please discuss amongst yourselves. thank you. but back to nazi germany. folks, this was a moment ago. my mother lived through this, there are people in this room who lived through this. this is a moment ago. i was in germany last week. i met people who lived through this period. it was an extraordinary thing, sons meeting heroes. if you don't know who bonhoffer is, bonhoffer was born in 1906, actually on february 4. that's two days from now and two days after my wife's birthday. now, she begged me not to mention that her birthday was today, but honey, will you please stand up, please? sweetie, don't be shy, please. she's so shy she hates the public

but often there is a fall back to the idea the state is the main guarantor.et in the indian context the state was a huge part of the problem. the administrative capacities you still get some advocates namely economists that rather than ask mistakes to do more to guarantee the food security, we want them to do less. we need the state to move the distribution of food and instead provide subsidies and allow the markets to take over which seems to me to be a plausible suggestion given the decades of difficulty but looking through the lens it might have made it harder to see that as a potential solution and even then some people do suppose that as a solution to see that as a kind of abandoning the idea that there was the right to food at this state to step back even if it was likely that having the state stepped back and would be more. spec one thing that occurred to me reading the discussion in your book is the distinction between the role of the state in providing the rights verses interfering with the exercise and enjoyment of the right. but i want to come back

and home they actually use music to break through so the idea that my musical role in. canada reaches. to the cia believes that would be easy target for this week. the music was sold. and it was probably some of the was told that they placed. all right chris. thank you from the. it's incredible all ending go in your imagination. go. well i've always liked music i think most people good actually. music means good luck to me among many other things i love that i've had a chat to to write music partly for a living and largely for fun that's also helping people. it seem credible. in your imagination. christopher soft as a composer to suss the mysteries because music helps to teach young children how to read and write for forty years he's been working for the famous children's television shot during this time he's written more than two hundred songs. their surname love. for his work christopher has won many awards. in the show the cookies sesame street residents like big bird sing his songs. are accepted there with magic numbers strange words or the names of the callers but t

here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still do their art. it is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. how could that be? it is the relationship that you have committed

the idea that there's all these other utopian movements and ideas that have become discredited. human rights is what is left and it's become the repository for the energy that once was forming into the postcolonial struggle or communism or socialism or any number of other political movements. and i hope i emphasize this in the book, but there are many advantages to this in the way that now understanding these issues in terms of rights reflect the majority and the modesty in the sense we can't change the regime that we can at least make sure that it doesn't violate a certain set of rights. we may not be able to change the world and know exactly what to do in each context we can make sure things don't get too bad were pushed for this improvement. that is the real strength of the human rights movement, and i want to emphasize that. but i also want to say that i hope that there is room for thinking more comprehensively, and that i think it's probably a good thing that the current education in india is the rights under focused on corruption that is a different lens that's needed. and