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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Pinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Or "Why we need multi-temporal knowledge"... and not just today's news.  A Symbolic "benchmark" for measuring "progress".
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
- Jean Baudrillard

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? "
- T. S. Eliot

"The excess of information and communication leads to distraction and superficiality."
- Byung-Chul Han

"Digital society turns information into a disposable commodity."
- Byung-Chul Han

"The digital age turns privacy into a valuable commodity."
-Byung-Chul Han

"Digital technology turns memory into something external, stored in devices"
- Byung-Chul Han

Why is everyone so focused on" Improving the World" rather than "Living a Good Life"?

"Today's society is a society of performance and efficiency, where the pressure for success leads to self-exploitation."
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"Neoliberalism turns everything into a project, even personal life"
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"Digital communication promotes the formation of information and opinion bubbles"
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"The performance society leads to self-exploitation and exhaustion"
- Byung-Chul Han

Want to Improve the World?  Set your Sights on Your Own Piece of It...  Your own Garden!
- Voltaire, "Candide"

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