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From the Ted Talk by Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art


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Now, I want to emphasize that these are just examples. I'm not holding these out as being the biggest ______. They're just examples. And the reason that I do this, it's because I have this fear that we aren't feeling enough as a culture right now. There's this kind of anesthesia in America at the moment. We've lost our _____ of outrage, our anger and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our _____ around the _____. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing. Our cultural joy, our ________ joy is nowhere to be seen. And one of the causes of this, I think, is that as each of us attempts to build this new kind of worldview, this holoptical worldview, this holographic image that we're all trying to create in our mind of the _______________ of things: the _____________ __________ 1,000 miles away of the things that we buy; the social consequences 10,000 miles away of the daily decisions that we make as consumers.

Solution


  1. footprints
  2. environmental
  3. world
  4. issues
  5. names
  6. national
  7. interconnection
  8. sense

Original Text


Now, I want to emphasize that these are just examples. I'm not holding these out as being the biggest issues. They're just examples. And the reason that I do this, it's because I have this fear that we aren't feeling enough as a culture right now. There's this kind of anesthesia in America at the moment. We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing. Our cultural joy, our national joy is nowhere to be seen. And one of the causes of this, I think, is that as each of us attempts to build this new kind of worldview, this holoptical worldview, this holographic image that we're all trying to create in our mind of the interconnection of things: the environmental footprints 1,000 miles away of the things that we buy; the social consequences 10,000 miles away of the daily decisions that we make as consumers.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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breast augmentation 4
million cups 3
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plastic cups 2
cigarette smoking 2
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Important Words


  1. america
  2. anesthesia
  3. anger
  4. atrocities
  5. attempts
  6. biggest
  7. build
  8. committed
  9. consequences
  10. consumers
  11. country
  12. create
  13. cultural
  14. culture
  15. daily
  16. decisions
  17. emphasize
  18. environmental
  19. examples
  20. fear
  21. feeling
  22. feelings
  23. footprints
  24. grief
  25. holding
  26. holographic
  27. holoptical
  28. image
  29. interconnection
  30. issues
  31. joy
  32. kind
  33. lost
  34. miles
  35. mind
  36. missing
  37. moment
  38. names
  39. national
  40. outrage
  41. reason
  42. sense
  43. social
  44. world
  45. worldview