personalization <> fragmentation
despite out best efforts to create coherent narratives, for the most part we live fragmented lives in a world of chaos
February 09 • Setting Sail for Uncharted Waters: Creative Counsel From David Bowie
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines as the overarching belief about society that facilitates co-operation — diminishes when we lose opportunities to engage with people outside of our regular social networks.
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Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
A social body is united not only by the things it makes use of, but by a multitude of shared traits, including geography, ethnicity, religion, taste, culture, history, and values. This is why, no matter their claim to universality, instantiations of public goods are always local . Locality is created and felt through shared space, time, or
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Each of these examples is based on a different idea of what makes life meaningful—on an idea of what is "good" (Taylor, 1977). Public goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, but more importantly, they are objects that satisfy values that are shared.