Status Updates From The Blind Giant: Being Huma...

'Learn that you are one of many, and understand that that is not a statement of insignificance, but the reverse.'

'Be aware of received wisdom, bias towards people who agree with you and away from those who share uncomfortable truths, and try to form an opinion based on your own understanding rather than a desire to be in the majority or aligned with the most charismatic.'

'We have seen and to some extent continue to see our governments and our corporations, even the nations of which we are a part, as something bigger than us: huge, alien, imponderable forces that crush us and which we cannot stop. It isn't true, and we're remembering that.'

'We are hybrids: creatures both cognitive and immanent, thoughtful and sensual.'

'Being human isn't like hanging your hat on a hook and leaving it there, it's like walking in a high wind: you have to keep paying attention. You have to be engaged with the world.'