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Zuckerberg says that Facebook is committed ‘to continue improving our tools to give you the power to share your experience’ with others.8 Yet what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences. In the name of ‘sharing experiences’, people are encouraged to understand what happens to them in terms of how others see it. If something exciting happens, the gut instinct of Facebook users is to pull out their smartphones, take a picture, post it online, and wait for the ‘likes’. In the process they barely notice what they themselves feel. Indeed, what they feel is increasingly determined by the online reactions.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
SHOSHIN
The greatest obstacle to learning is what you already know. One way to resolve this is to train yourself to temporarily “unlearn” the assumptions you’ve accumulated, approaching learning opportunities with a beginner’s mind, clear & open.
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@G_S_Bhogal on Twitter
So, we need to be more than intolerant with some intolerant minorities. Simply, they violate the Silver Rule. It is not permissible to use “American values” or “Western principles” in treating intolerant Salafism (which denies other peoples’ right to have their own religion). The West is currently in the process of committing suicide.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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