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Year: 2019
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Corporate Social Responsibility also means: to manufacture the kind of desires in your customers that don’t lead to the degradation of the ecosystem.
Activism
Profit maximization is a ‘clean’, strong forcing idea, i.e. one that allows for the abstraction from local context. It binds human actions together in a social structure that proves very hard to disentangle. Communal welfare cannot abstract from life in this way. The internal motivation hinges on local outcomes and thus erodes, leading either to societal collapse or suppression, which represent more primitive forcing ideas, namely following orders and immediate survival.
Philosophy
“What is the purpose of life?”
“Mainly gloating over the misfortunes of others”
“And you say evil comes from religion, huh?”
“…And then there’s irony.”
Christopher Hitchens
The good life
“Can I talk to a real computer please?”
Culturally, the watershed moment will be when people begin to prefer AI over other people. Only if and when that happens, will there be something like a 4th industrial revolution – a revolution that ultimately overcomes homo sapiens itself. From: Kamiel Choi, our last century.
Philosophy
It’s not about what you do. It’s about what you don’t do because of it.
Philosophy
whatever can be explained by inertia shouldn’t be explained by a conspiracy
Philosophy
In the end, we are all big-brained monkeys with a limited capacity.
The good life
Is literary writing the art of making cultivated loneliness feel like engaging conversation?
Philosophy
“A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful form; they resemble each other and there is nothing easier than to mistake one for the other.”
From: The Joke by Milan Kundera
Philosophy
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain
The good life
Feminism
She who entirely accepts the fact that one man stays at home shows more signs of feminism than she who loudly proclaims that all women have to go to work.
The good life
Adorno on Facebook
The notion that every single person considers themselves better in their particular interest than all others, is as long-standing a piece of bourgeois ideology as the overestimation of others as higher than oneself, just because they are the community of all customers. [The source of “likes”] Since the old bourgeois class has abdicated, both lead their afterlife in the Spirit [Geist] of intellectuals, who are at the same time the last enemies of the bourgeois, and the last bourgeois. By allowing themselves to still think at all vis-a-vis the naked reproduction of existence, they behave as the privileged; by leaving things in thought, they declare the nullity of their privilege. – Theodor W. Adorno, quoted by Babette Babich
The good life
There are more things between foreplay and orgasm, fellatio, than dreamt of in your philosophies.
Laughs