Emptied

Went to a talk on "emptiness and social action" by a giant of Buddhist studies today only to learn that we need to abolish the Electoral College, and shareholder-focused corporations too. Not that we don't, but I was hoping for something a little, well, more dhammic, a vision of selfless political action or even leadership. Still, it makes the need for structural political and economic change seem that much more urgent if even one who spends his days with the Pali canon thinks it necessary.