Something interesting I got when reading Juvenal’s “Satires”:
“Humanity has been on the decline, even since Homer’s time!”
And thinking about today’s brave new world, and today’s modern world-society I can also say:
Yes, society is on the decline. Humanity is on the decline.
My thoughts:
1. Lack of critical inquiry
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We still get easily suckered! It is insane that in today’s 2020 (yes we live in the year two thousand and twenty) we still get suckered by:
- Confirmation bias
- Cherry picking fallacy
- Too much trust in the news
- Misunderstanding of the human body, human physiology and this charade of ‘calories’.
2. Animal ‘rights’ as *equivalent* to “human rights”?
For example even the hugely influential ‘Effective Altruism‘ foundation puts ‘Animal Welfare‘ as one of their high concepts. I think this is nonsense. Simple thought:
Any ounce of effort we spend towards animal welfare is a distraction from improving human welfare (a quadrillion times more important).
I also don’t trust Effective Altruism because Steven Pinker recommended it (I am on the side of Nassim Taleb who is very anti-Steven Pinker).
3. Computer intelligence (AI, artificial intelligence and machine learning) over human intelligence?
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The ultimate intelligence is wisdom … but why doesn’t wisdom get taught in our schools anymore? Or why is wisdom not mentioned at all anymore? And now the average person cannot think *without* a computer or smartphone. And also due to the sneaky way that Google has infiltrated our lives, we can no longer think and reflect and meditate on a question before we quickly ‘Google it’ to get the answer.
Also a thing:
Be highly suspicious of Google results … Google AdSense backed websites and blogs should not be trusted, and are often highly dubious.
SOCIOLOGY by KIM
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- Social Innovations
- Society *Shouldn’t* Be Fair
- Why Society Doesn’t Want Free Thinkers and Free Livers
- Our New Soft Society
- HARD SOCIETY
Sociological Theory
- TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE
- POST-MONETARY SOCIETY.
- Simulated Universal Basic Income
- DIGITAL CAPITALISM
- Capitalism 2.0
- SOCIETY 2.0