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Seeing the world through a zero-sum mentality tends to favour ‘neutral’, ‘apolitical’ approaches that prop up the current system.
Arguing for a Better World
Arianne Shahvisi
consciousness may be a kind of mental pollution produced by the firing of complex neural networks. It doesn’t do anything. It is just there. If this is true, it implies that all the pain and pleasure experienced by billions of creatures for millions of years is just mental pollution.
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
Human beings do not construct their identities according to a personal and free choice, however much consumerism might imply this is possible. Their sense of being is inevitably tied up by a set of social processes which serve to mislead them and their judgement in such a way that their sense of self will always be compromised.
The Experience Society
Steven Miles
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