Jitendra
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“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. [...] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“We do not become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations. The bad news is that as conditions improve, expectations balloon.”
― Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana
― Homo Deus: Breve historia del mañana
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
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“Blind faith can justify anything.* If a man believes in a different god, or even if he uses a different ritual for worshipping the same god, blind faith can decree that he should die—on the cross, at the stake, skewered on a Crusader’s sword, shot in a Beirut street, or blown up in a bar in Belfast. Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves. This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.”
― The Selfish Gene
― The Selfish Gene
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