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Emotions are not reactions to the world. You are not a passive receiver of sensory input but an active constructor of your emotions. From sensory input and past experience, your brain constructs meaning and prescribes action. If you didn’t have concepts that represent your past experience, all your sensory inputs would just be noise. You wouldn’t k
... See morefrom How Emotions Are Made by Maria Popova
- Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
from Tweet by Renee Solana
Economists are the ultimate permissive parents who believe in just letting the kids (markets) run free and see what happens.
Children need boundaries, or they grow up to be assholes.
Economies need boundaries, or they grow up to be assholes.
We aren’t talking Soviet Style planned economies here. We are talking guardrails, so we don’t take a corner at
... See morefrom Economics Needs a Rethink by Matt Orsagh from Degrowth is the Answer
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
from The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA by noemamag.com
What can we do now? Well, there's a
whole lot of things really. We can begin the work of limiting the damage we do to nature and that's, of course, the obvious one and is underway in many very good organisations and human beings in the world today. But I think we also need to reestablish some sense of who we are and what we're doing here. And I thin
... See morefrom Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World by UnHerd
While serving a life sentence in jail, Kaczynski wrote a little-known sequel to his manifesto, entitled “Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How”. In it he outlines his belief that all technologically advanced civilizations become trapped in fatal games before they learn to colonize space. This happens because industry is driven by competition, and compe
... See morefrom Why Everything Is Becoming a Game by Gurwinder
The brilliant Japanese writer Haruki Murakami once wrote, “Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right.”
from Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds by James Clear
We’re decades deep into the helicopter parenting era. Children have never been healthier or safer, but then, American children have been remarkably healthy and safe for decades longer, there was never any real “stranger danger,” and improvements to child health are the product of improving medical technology, not ever-more-anxious parents.
from You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now. by Freddie DeBoer