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Our digital experiences are out of body. This biases us toward depersonalised behaviour in an environment where one’s identity can be a…
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It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a…
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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really…
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up,…
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The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
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Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.
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The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own…
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If we stop believing in a future, if we stop doing things for something else but start doing them for now, some…
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It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us,
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More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered…
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Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to…
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for…
— Aristotle
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
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We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
— Plutarch
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Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
— Dennis Gabor
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...in all the woods and forests, God did not create a single leaf the same as any other... People go against nature…
— Paulo Coelho
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Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by…
— Plutarch
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But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature
— Daphne Zuniga
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Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation…
— Adolf Hitler
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... it [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them…
— Thomas Aquinas
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If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that…
— Thomas Aquinas
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