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The author suggests that Amish are not “radical” because they chose to shun particular technologies, but rather “because they actually make decisions , rather than allowing the decision to be made for them by something called ‘progress.’”
Ruth Gaskovski • Beyond Digital Detox: How to Make a Home for Humans
. Stay weird
Lastly, we need to accept the fundamental trippy weirdness of imagination, the sheer play of it, and not always reduce it to functional adaptation. There must be room for the surreal, the fantastic, the idealistic and even the nonsensical. Even in the full bloom of the scientific revolution, thinkers of all stripes – Emanuel... See more
Lastly, we need to accept the fundamental trippy weirdness of imagination, the sheer play of it, and not always reduce it to functional adaptation. There must be room for the surreal, the fantastic, the idealistic and even the nonsensical. Even in the full bloom of the scientific revolution, thinkers of all stripes – Emanuel... See more
Stephen T Asma • Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays
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Sense-making emerges out of nonsense, to be blunt. We need to accept stages of confusion as potentially enjoyable, playful, resources.
Stephen T Asma • Why we need a new kind of education: Imagination Studies | Aeon Essays
There is a social cost to early-moving because all our reward systems are baked into those preexisting mutually reinforcing frames. When we adopt a new frame (e.g. “the climate crisis is an emergency worth our sustained attention”) we put at risk any reward systems in conflict with our new frame.
Spencer R. Scott • Emergencies, Frameshifts and What They Tell Us About Our Place in the World
Decelerator — Downshift
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Technology removes the soul from human performance in order to make it more compatible with industry.
Douglas Rushkoff • Artificial Creativity
In Creating Anonymous Summaries, AI Flattens Out All the Fascinating Architecture of Thought That Makes the Internet Hum
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