Collin G Brooke

The growth in extremism and terrorism is the flip side of ICT (information and communications technology) development. This is the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups.

The anthropologist David Graeber once wrote: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” The same is true of the Internet.

This is the problem beneath other problems because if we can’t agree on what’s true, then we can’t navigate out of any of our problems.”

Much of our capacity to ‘use’ the world depends, not on an attempt to open ourselves as much as possible to apprehending whatever it is that exists apart from ourselves, but instead on apprehending whatever I have brought into being for myself, my representation of it. This is the remit of the left hemisphere, and would appear to require a

And stories make place.24 This means the metaphoric, allegorical, symbolic, and other devices that shape stories also move us and make place.

Wisdom lies in discernment, and utopianism and nostalgia alike are ways of abandoning discernment.

linguistic concept called the theory of performativity says that language does not simply describe or reflect who we are, it creates who we are.