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Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
Alan Jacobs
Carl Schmitt says it is a “sign of inner conflict to have more than one real enemy.”11 The same holds for friends. Following Schmitt, having more than one true friend would betoken a lack of character and definition. One’s many friends on Facebook would offer further proof of the late-modern ego’s lack of character and definition. In positive terms, such a human being without character is flexible, able to assume any form, play any role, or perform any function. This shapelessness—or, alternately, flexibility—creates a high degree of economic efficiency.
The Burnout Society
Han, Byung-Chul;
In the practical order, we find our Original Goodness when planted within us:
we can discover and own these three attitudes or virtues deeply
A trust in inner coherence itself. "It all means something!" (Faith)
A trust that this coherence is positive and going somewhere good (Hope)
A trust that this coherence includes me and even defines me (Love)
The Universal Christ
Richard Rohr
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