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“A life that trudges along from one present moment to the next, from one crisis to the next, from one problem to the next, slows to a mere survival. Living is more than just problem solving. Someone who merely solves problems does not have a future. It is only with narrative that a future opens up, for narrative gives us hope.”
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“In a world saturated with data and information, our narrative capacity withers. Fewer theories are therefore formulated – no one wants to take the risk of putting forward a theory.”
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“Narrating requires leisure. Under conditions of accelerated communication, we do not have the time, or even the patience, to tell stories. We merely exchange information. Under more leisurely conditions, anything can trigger a narrative”
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“The reason that people compulsively take selfies is not narcissism. Rather, it is inner emptiness. There is no meaning to stabilize the ego. Faced with its inner emptiness, the ego constantly produces itself. Selfies reproduce the self in its empty form”
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“We are at the mercy of the algorithmic black box. Human beings are reduced to data sets that can be controlled and exploited.”
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“No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people as individual consumers. Consumers are lonely. They do not form a community”
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