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But if one of the old farmers took a new farm, and you walked round the land with him and asked him: “What are you going to plant here and here?” he’d look at you some queer; because he wouldn’t plant nothing much at first. He’d wait a bit and see what the land was like: he’d prove the land first. A good practical man would hold on for a few weeks, and get the feel of the land under his feet. He’d walk on it and feel it through his boots and see if it was in good heart, before he planted anything: he’d sow only when he knew what the land was fit for.’
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
The Information
James Gleick
Some of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, however, have come to accept the insulation equation as a fundamental principle of our world. Amazingly, it works well enough to make them billionaires in the process, confirming the validity of their convictions to themselves and to their growing legions of acolytes. They become our society’s heroes. Cherry-picking compatible ideas from science, economics, and philosophy, they have assembled a mindset that actually encourages them to build a highly technologized society capable of supporting denial at scale.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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