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The question is: by what method can you reach the conclusion that a distribution of inequality we see in our society is the “result” of “genes” “rather than” “environment”? And the answer is, you can’t, because it’s the wrong question.
We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs
currentaffairs.org
The creator economy doesn't need another savior. It needs fewer parasites.
Your Creator Economy Math Is Built on Our Broken Dreams
Joan Westenberg
It’s not just that living in a constant state of distraction is unpleasant, or that a life without willful thought and action is an impoverished one. If it’s true that collective agency both mirrors and relies on the individual capacity to “pay attention,” then in a time that demands action, distraction appears to be (at the level of the collective) a life-and-death matter. A social body that can’t concentrate or communicate with itself is like a person who can’t think and act.
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
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