Matthew Kern

“In order to manipulate humans, there is no need to physically hook brains to computers. For thousands of years prophets, poets, and politicians have used language to manipulate and reshape society. Now computers are learning how to do it. And they won’t need to send killer robots to shoot us. They could manipulate human beings to pull the trigger.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“All the Christian churches are being forced to an inevitable, honest, and somewhat humiliating conclusion. The vast majority of Christian ministry has been concerned with “churching” people into symbolic, restful, and usually ethnic belonging systems rather than any real spiritual transformation into the mystery of God.”
― Richard Rohr, The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective

“What turns someone into a populist is claiming that they alone represent the people and that anyone who disagrees with them—whether state bureaucrats, minority groups, or even the majority of voters—either suffers from false consciousness or isn’t really part of the people.[”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Friendships come and go. You can feel close and then you can feel distant. And none of this is personal. It’s proximity and timing.”
― Mel Robbins, The Let Them Theory