How Buddhism has changed the West for the better | Rebecca Solnit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : were half a century ago, from corporal punishment in public schools to domestic violence and systemic silencing and exclusion, to recognize how much has changed.
48% : A lot of new ideas have emerged from Buddhism and other traditions emphasizing compassion, equality, nonviolence and critical perspectives on materialism and capitalism
47% : A lot of new ideas have emerged from Buddhism and other traditions emphasizing kindness and compassion, equality and egalitarianism, nonviolence, critical perspectives on materialism and capitalism, and what I once heard the Zen priest Paul Haller at the San Francisco Zen Center call "the practice of awareness".
41% : I've called contemporary conservative thinking "the ideology of isolation", obsessed with control through separation and segregation, with borders and anti-immigration rhetoric, with policing racial and gender categories, and marriage inequality both as a denial of marital rights to same-sex couples and of male domination within heterosexual marriage.
36% : therefore environmental protection and human rights were not separate concerns (and that access to nature and to clean air and water were also racial-justice issues).

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