Post-individualism
Severin Matusek and
Post-individualism
via Rayne Fisher Quan
I’m curious about religion for many of the same reasons I’m curious about open source. They’re organizational systems that bind people tightly together, and whose norms, fascinatingly, didn’t derive from any one place, but rather from a shared consensus iterated upon by each passing generation.
Nadia Asparouhova • Public Faith
Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic.