02. Douglas Rushkoff - Whoa, Vol. 1
An adequate account, we argue, requires —viewing objects only as entities relative to our interactions with the world and our projections on it —viewing properties as interactional rather than inherent —viewing categories as experiential gestalts defined via prototype instead of viewing them as rigidly fixed and defined via set theory
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
The Mindset is incapable of such observations. It depends on a Western, empirical approach to science that breaks everything down into parts rather than emphasizing the connections and interactions between all these things.
Douglas Rushkoff • Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
If media and machines have fused into one great engine of scale, what stands opposite it? Man’s search for meaning . But in an age of accelerating extremes, even meaning must market itself to remain relevant. We like to think it waits patiently in our private lives — but I suspect that’s wishful thinking. Meaning too must earn its keep.6
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