March 24 2025

Values and Measures

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion were previously recognized as values to live by but have increasingly become measures to 'appropriately' administer policies and procedures. Should we revisit our relationship with this understanding and consider Honesty, Reasonableness, and Kindness in its stead? Have supposed values become rigidly definitive measures to hegemonically dominate or coercively subsume both individual and group identities? Perhaps a return to intangible guidelines and fluid frames of reference would begin to heal the psychological, environmental and cultural rift caused by the judgmental hard lines and definitive closures of modern thinking.

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