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How to Be a Good Ancestor (2014)
- danboarder 5y agoA core idea from the article that caught my attention: ".. bio-philosopher and inventor of the polio vaccine, Salk went down in history not for his biomedical innovation, but for his philosophical outlook. “Who owns the patent on this vaccine?’ ‘Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” Salk was raised to believe that each person was responsible for making a difference in the world. However as he aged, he came to believe that we aren’t just responsible for making any kind of positive difference in the world, but one that will outlast our life times. In this 1985 interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind, Jonas Salk offered the following framework for how we must live our lives: The most important question we can ask ourselves is: “Are we being good ancestors?” "