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““twenty-first-century technology may enable external algorithms to ‘hack humanity’ and know me far better than I know myself.””

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“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

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“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.”

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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…

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I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…

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“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled…

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“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

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“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…

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“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in…

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“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.…

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“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,…

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“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…

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“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”

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