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Liberalism traditionally relied on economic growth to magically solve difficult social and political conflicts. Liberalism reconciled the proletariat with the bourgeoisie, the faithful with the atheists, the natives with the immigrants, and the Europeans with the Asians by promising everybody a larger slice of the pie. With a constantly growing pie, that was possible. However, economic growth will not save the global ecosystem – just the opposite, it is the cause of the ecological crisis. And economic growth will not solve technological disruption – it is predicated on the invention of more and more disruptive technologies.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
How much you truly “believe” in something can be manifested only through what you are willing to risk for it.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science has often been regarded as a quest for confirmation. Scientists observe nature, create theories, and then seek to prove them by amassing as much supporting evidence as possible. But we can now see that this is only a part of the truth. Science is not just about confirmation, it is also about falsification. Knowledge does not progress merely by gathering confirmatory data, but by looking for contradictory data.
Black Box Thinking
Matthew Syed
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