“The brilliance of this system (creating entire ecosystems of products) is that it often feels entirely organic, like a subliminal hum that vibrates just below the threshold of conscious awareness. Gradually and imperceptibly, our understanding of identity has been subtly rewritten by the invisible hand of the marketplace.
Every scroll and click is another lesson in this new language of identity, where being has
been replaced by buying. The most innocuous consequence would be simply purchasing a
pile of rubbish you don’t actually need. But the effects of these new market-driven social
norms can reach beyond your wallet, burrowing deep into your sense of self.”
― How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life
Every scroll and click is another lesson in this new language of identity, where being has
been replaced by buying. The most innocuous consequence would be simply purchasing a
pile of rubbish you don’t actually need. But the effects of these new market-driven social
norms can reach beyond your wallet, burrowing deep into your sense of self.”
― How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life
“But people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.”
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“If we never engage deeply with our chosen identities, we don’t give ourselves the chance to evolve and grow within them.”
― How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life
― How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist's Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life
“There's no such thing as perfect writing. Just like there's no such thing as perfect despair”
― Hear the Wind Sing
― Hear the Wind Sing
“If you’re looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create true fine art, slaves are a necessity. That’s how the ancient Greeks felt, with slaves working the fields, cooking
their meals, rowing their ships, all the while their citizens, under the Mediterranean Sun, indulged in poetry writing and grappled with
mathematics. That was their idea of fine art.”
― Hear the Wind Sing
their meals, rowing their ships, all the while their citizens, under the Mediterranean Sun, indulged in poetry writing and grappled with
mathematics. That was their idea of fine art.”
― Hear the Wind Sing
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