Society

"The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things not people"—Johann Hari

If you serve as a mechanical slave to mass media and online algorithms, you’ll end up with intellectual diabetes. To find quality information, you have to rebel against the incentives of mass media and the algorithms that threaten its business model.Make no mistake. For the conscious news consumer, there has never been a better time to be alive. Th... See more

there’s a good cultural shift away from “you can have it all” and towards “you can only have a few things, choose wisely and focus”

Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY of excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment https://t.co/L8618EXBoK