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By 2050, not only the idea of a job for life but even that of a profession for life might seem antediluvian.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Negative capability: capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
On artistic creation, I remember him saying that, in the past, by the end of the Eldrere, theoreticians believed that art was the process of creating a beautiful and higher world above the real one, an ideal or illusory world, something like a dream. But that wasn’t the case. The main goal of the artist is not to give knowledge, but superior experiences, to bequeath to his contemporaries that experience which creates and transmits artistic emotion. An artist’s job is not to disclose, but to touch the heart.
Chronicles From the Future
Paul Amadeus Dienach and Achilleas Sirigos
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