Thought provoking
by evanovich · updated 19d ago
Thought provoking
- humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by Maria Popova
evanovich added 2mo ago
- In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others.
from Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists by Maria Popova
evanovich added 2mo ago
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
from Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty by Sarah Perry
evanovich added 2mo ago
- The philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote presciently about the danger of a society of lonely individuals. She defined loneliness not as solitude—since solitude is where one can reflect on their connection to themselves and others and really prepare themselves for encountering others. She described loneliness as isolation and even alienation from others ... See more
from Hope Beyond Rugged Individualism by Tara McMullin
evanovich added 2mo ago
- One night I went home and dreamed. I stood in an unassuming living room, except that an entire wall was perfect glass looking out onto a cold, otherworldly, rocky terrain with no life as far as the eye could see. Suddenly, through the glass I saw my grandmother. She was blue in the face, agitated, obviously unable to breathe, hypoxic, and gesturing... See more
from Psychic Shit Happens All The Time by Kristin Posehn
evanovich added 1mo ago
Can’t make this shit up.
Most often people believe that the “gift” is the ability itself.
from Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
evanovich added 2mo ago
- a) I’m sick of pretending that psychic stuff doesn’t exist, and, b) materialism is bullshit. This office-park-version-of-reality charade has gone on long enough.
from Psychic Shit Happens All The Time by Kristin Posehn
evanovich added 1mo ago
The universe rather resembles a soup of experience-causing material, which your mind then separates into distinct, unified objects. And even this is inappropriately projecting our own conceptions of substance onto reality.
from A brief digression into Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by From Narrow To General AI
evanovich added 1mo ago
Children, especially highly sensitive children, can be wounded in multiple ways: by bad things happening, yes, but also by good things not happening, such as their emotional needs for attunement not being met.
from The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
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