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Thomas
How to Remember Everything You Read
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We often compare social media to Orwellâs surveillance state of 1984 , but hereâs whatâs different about our telescreens: our screens do not exist to monitor us, but for us to monitor others. There is no totalitarian state behind our screens enforcing social order; instead, the screens turn us into the supervisors of each othersâ behaviors.
Sherry Ning ⢠Stop Looking At Each Other
What is narrative change and why is it different from strategic communications? | Prevention Institute
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Still others argue that the circular-economy idea merely reframes rather than rejects the corporate and capitalist assumptions that got us into this mess in the first place. Instead of challenging the goal of growth, circular economies create a new form of growth that is still in the hands of industrial corporations. The accusation is that the... See more
Chip Colwell ⢠Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
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. âthe climate crisis is an emergency worth our sustained attentionâ) 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
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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 â 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 â Emanuel... See more