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La loi du moindre effort est, juste après la loi de l’alimentation maximale, du sexe à gogo et de la domination, un socle fondamental du comportement animal, et même du comportement d’un animal « évolué » comme l’être humain. Et elle est inscrite dans le marbre de votre striatum.
Le Bug Humain
Sébastien BOHLER
The rise of talk radio challenged the role of experts by reinforcing the popular belief that the established media were dishonest and unreliable. Radio talkers didn’t just attack established political beliefs: they attacked everything, plunging their listeners into an alternate universe where facts of any kind were unreliable unless verified by the host. In 2011, Limbaugh referred to “government, academia, science, and the media” as the “four corners of deceit,” which pretty much covered everyone except Limbaugh.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
A rural peasant woman in modern Malawi spends 35 percent of her time farming food, 33 percent cooking and cleaning, 17 percent fetching clean drinking water, and 5 percent collecting firewood. This leaves only 10 percent of her day for anything else, including finding the gainful employment needed to pull her off this treadmill. Because of all of this, Ridley feels that the best definition of prosperity is simply “saved time.” “Forget dollars, cowrie shells, or gold,” he says. “The true measure of something’s worth is the hours it takes to acquire it.”
Abundance
Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
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