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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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You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I…
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The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from…
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It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise,…
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One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called "Takings"...…
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In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the…
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple,…
— Russell Banks
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Short form media is reductionist by nature.
— Jon Krakauer
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You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy.…
— Joel Salatin
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If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized,…
— Joel Salatin
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In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has…
— Loren Eiseley
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Treating an age group as a demographic requires coming up with something that's common to every single one of them. Right?... So…
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