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Inner listening, recognition, acknowledgment, and compassion are the roots of recovery and, in this case, recovery from our addiction to thinking. These fundamental processes lay the ground for transformation. Once we’ve recognized the truth of what’s happening in our mind, acknowledged what we’re doing to ourselves, and offered ourselves compassion for our own experience, we can then play with a variety of different contemplations and practices.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
Al-Gharbi is neither an adherent of wokeism nor an anti-woke scold. He would like to both stem the progressive excesses of the summer of 2020, a moment when white liberals “tended to perceive much more racism against minorities than most minorities, themselves, reported experiencing,” *and* see substantive social justice be achieved for everyone, irrespective of whether they hail from a historically disadvantaged identity group or not. The first step, he argues, is to dispel the notion that the Great Awokening was “some kind of unprecedented new thing.”
Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Narayanan and Kapoor offer a vision of informed consumers and enlightened executives working together to field some institutional critiques and entertain *some* political debates. They cannot entertain more substantive fixes because they don’t seem to be aware of more substantive problems. *AI Snake Oil* has relatively little to say on what we should do about AI besides make it work in vaguely more sustainable and responsible ways.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
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