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Of course, things have not quite worked out this way. As the late nineteenth-century French sociologist Émile Durkheim perceived, the flipside of free-floating autonomy is anomie — a society without any authoritative norms. Pried from closed communities, many people suffer from pathologies of isolation and purposelessness. Family breakdown, drug ad
... See morenoemamag.com • Surveillance Capitalism vs. The Surveillance State - NOEMA
The biggest challenge for every Federation citizen is not how to survive, how to protect their property, or how to make ends meet. Their challenge is how to allocate their time, talents, and capacity for empathy to best contribute to the common wealth.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
The issue is that humans will inevitably seek out ways of finding intimacy and connection with strangers, with people they will never meet. Should we challenge the nation’s role in that process? Or allow it to step into a breach that would otherwise be filled by an ascendant consumer culture, in which identity and belonging are defined by what one
... See moreAlexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote presciently about the danger of a society of lonely individuals. She defined loneliness not as solitude—since solitude is where one can reflect on their connection to themselves and others and really prepare themselves for encountering others. She described loneliness as isolation and even alienation from others ... See more
Sure, Mr. Hoover. • Hope beyond individualism
