Elaine Meyer
@elainermeyer
Elaine Meyer
Social media acts as an emotional coordination layer, increasing the amplitude and frequency of culture. Jealousy, resentment, and fomo are more viral and powerful than ever, particularly when everyone is on their computer all day post-lockdown.
John Luttig • Finance as culture
“The most satisfying form of freedom is not a life without responsibilities, but a life where you are free to choose your responsibilities.”
James Clear • 3 Ideas, 2 Quotes, 1 Question (November 28, 2019) | James Clear
Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin—you can’t have one without the other (at least not for long).
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
“Freedom,” according to Jean-Paul Sartre, “is what you do with what’s been done to you.” This is true at the individual level — say, someone climbing their way out of a traumatic childhood into full adulthood — as well as at the collective level — think, for example, of the generations-long liberation struggle of Black people in America.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
i like this - because it doesn’t put the burden of doing something that may be practically impossible on us but rather what’s possible within one’s circumstances
The beginning of freedom is the beginning of responsibility.
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
The Age of Social Media Is Ending - The Atlantic, November 2022
If we consider recent findings on the prevalence of online hate speech, cyber crime and social media addiction, we could be forgiven for wondering, does the internet bring out the worst in people?
Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.
Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more
Maybe that’s not what we should be asking.
Computer-mediated communication facilitates alternative power relations and social conventions, normalising new... See more
Nathalie Béchet • The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be ... See more
Molly Mielke • callings
#creativity
freedom involves responsibility, and there’s a part of most of us that finds responsibility frightening.