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Above all, I wanted to understand the contradiction of human power: We are at once far too powerful and not nearly powerful enough. We are powerful enough to radically reshape Earth’s climate and biodiversity, but not powerful enough to choose how we reshape them.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Humans abstract themselves from reality, drawn into the mirages of the metaverse. The machine, meanwhile, is learning to walk in our physical world, conquering the space we abandon. We have ceased to inhabit space.... See more
A world where education prepares us for a future that no longer exists. Where work produces nomadic bodies, minds evaporated into the c
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #109
Yet in reality, the solar system is heliocentric – centred on the sun, not the Earth – and the Earth is not at rest but in complex motion.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
These companies, the attention economy itself, and the consumerist society that gave birth to it, deploy vast resources to turn as many people as possible into passive consumers, to reduce us to our eyeballs and our wallets. Because the more control a company can get over those things, the better their stocks will perform.
First, consumerism turned... See more
First, consumerism turned... See more
