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Thomas Dexter Kerr
When embarking on my quest for the ideas in "The Default Setting Is Love" in 1973, I realized that if I was to find the meaning of peace and love in the larger sense, their importance, origin, and ...view moreWhen embarking on my quest for the ideas in "The Default Setting Is Love" in 1973, I realized that if I was to find the meaning of peace and love in the larger sense, their importance, origin, and function in real, practical everyday life, I not only had to read lots of books, I had to live it and help build it. So I choose a career of service to my country and my people. By my people I meant Americans. African Americans are Americans. I came to West Philadelphia alone, with enough to get by a couple months. I drove city transit buses for five years, immersing myself in the culture and neighborhoods, then started a successful small business helping lots and lots of people, doing not charity but respect, and did a lot of volunteer work, all designed to add to the slowly growing peace. I did my small part and made a difference. Right from the beginning in that world I learned from the people around me to stop asking what caused the chaos of the low level civil war raging all around us back then. We already knew most of that. A much more difficult and important problem was addressing what could be done to build the peace and help people find ways to live better lives. And when you start asking and pursuing those very different questions it changes you and the things you do and the world opens up in front of you.
This book is not about those struggles, that adventure. It is about the universal truths I learned along the way.view less