prefer and marshal

From The Technological Republic by Alex Karp:

Our collective and contemporary fear of making claims about truth, beauty, the good life, and indeed justice have led us to the embrace of a thin version of collective identity, one that is incapable of providing meaningful direction to the human experience. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures, including the norms and organizational habits of Silicon Valley, notwithstanding its flaws and contradictions, have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. We are perhaps right to recoil at the summary abandonment of the unnamed “African mask” in favor of the white marble of the Apollo. But should we be left with no means of discerning between art that moves us forward, ideas that advance humanity’s cause, and those that do not? The risk is that our fear to pronounce, to speak, to prefer, has left us without direction and confidence when it comes to marshaling our shared resources and talents. Fear has led us to recoil and shrink our sense of the possible, and this fear has found its way into every aspect of our lives.

Prefer and marshal instead.