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I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. — Richmond Feynman

#science #doubt #politics #arrogance #the shouting class #outrage culture

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. — Oscar Wilde

#politics #overdoing it #scope creep #society #oscar wilde #quotes

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Humility cultivates unity, not uniformity. We shouldn’t all be the same. But we should be able to be in community with people you don’t agree with. — John Wagler

#faith #humility #sameness #variety #civility #church #group psychology #community

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(via Equity: The Thief of Human Potential - Thomas Sowell - YouTube)

#social justice #arrogance #education #unpopular opinion

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This idea was new. In pagan religions, places were holy; a sacred mountain, say, or a deified river. But the Abrahamic faiths found something Godly in a ritual of rest amid the flow of time.

#faith #REST #Calm #everyday life #Slow Down #slow productivity #cal newport #Rituals #spirituality #intentionality

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When they first took to Twitter around 15 years ago, even the oldest Millennials were just pushing 30. They weren’t old enough to fancy people 20 years younger than them, or to have staff with whom they could misjudge their interactions. They confused this absence of human complication - as young people often do - with being unusually morally pure. Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s lots of Gen Xers had all the same puritanical impulses as 2010 Millennials. But we didn’t - thank God - have a global machine for inflicting shame and punishment at lightning speed.

Good Millennial. Bad Millennial. - by Rowan Davies

#politics #outrage culture #the shouting class #Social media #millenials #judging #self righteousness

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Unsurprisingly, if you award status and benefits based solely on ticking a box, quite a lot of people will tick that box.

The Bluestocking, vol 307 - by Helen Lewis

#identity #false narratives #social justice

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(via 13 Observations on Ritual - by Ted Gioia)

#the brain #clickbait #attention economy #abyss gaze #Social media #ephemera #pop culture

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The human psyche finds a way to avoid the feeling of guilt. If it didn’t, we would throw ourselves onto the shore like dolphins.

— Alexei Navalny

#quotes #quote #guilt #psychology #identity

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(via People don’t have to agree with boundaries for you to execute them. Boundaries are meant to keep you safe. And they are meant to keep you… | Instagram)

#boundaries #basic decency #Drama #the shouting class #outrage culture #peace #Calm

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#boundaries #honesty #belief #personal responsibility #africa brooke #Instagram

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For me, learning about history always comes down to connecting. We can talk about the battle of Cold Harbor, or we can stand where it happened and connect to it. — Scott Teodorski, Superintendent of Richmond National Battlefield Park and Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site

#history #real

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In this context, “banning” books doesn’t actually mean banning them. They aren’t being taken off of Amazon, they’re not leaving bookstores, and nobody is saying that a student in possession of one of these books should be punished. Ron DeSantis may be heavy-handed, but he’s not the Stasi. Consider: if you were a librarian at an elementary school, and you decided, for example, that Lolita, or even Rainbow Six wasn’t an age-appropriate choice for your shelves, would we say that you had banned Vladimir Nabokov or Tom Clancy? I don’t think so. We use this hyperbolic terminology because…I don’t know, maybe we don’t have enough to do. But the point is, no actor in this drama is a 20th century authoritarian. All we’re talking about here is what school kids should be able to access while they are at school.

I would rather that reporting on this were more level-headed, and not do things like imply that Florida Republicans are trying to ban the dictionary and Encyclopedia Britannica. Fun as that may be, it isn’t going to fool conservatives in Florida who know exactly what this dispute is and isn’t about. I’m worried though that it might fool gullible liberals into missing an important part of this, which is: why HB 1069 became popular enough to pass in the first place.

#politics #outrage culture #clickbait #Media Literacy #the shouting class #books #lit #news

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“Remember: water what you want to grow. Give attention to the things you want your child to do more often.”

#parenting #mumblr

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Those who do not feel confidence in defending their ideas may see group consciousness as a ready-made shortcut to thinking; the answer to critical inquiry or refutation is always already in some or all of the group’s ideological tenets, maxims and talking points. Those who embrace group consciousness do not have to think of ways to defend their ideas; the group does it for them.

#Independence #self reliance #identity #confidence #social justice #accountability

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Just because a tool exists and is popular doesn’t mean that we’re stuck with it. Given the increasing reach and power of recent innovations, adopting this attitude might even have existential ramifications. In a world where a tool like TikTok can, seemingly out of nowhere, suddenly convince untold thousands of users that maybe Osama bin Laden wasn’t so bad, or in which new A.I. models can, in the span of only a year, introduce a distressingly human-like intelligence into the daily lives of millions, we have no other reasonable choice but to reassert autonomy over the role of technology in shaping our shared story. This requires a shift in thinking. Decades of living in a technopoly have taught us to feel shame in ever proposing to step back from the cutting edge. But, as in nature, productive evolution here depends as much on subtraction as addition.

It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly | The New Yorker

#tech #minimalism #simplicity #Integrity #personal responsibility #vapor management

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#faith #ageing #ageism #age #everyday life #purpose