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Instant Gratification.
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“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.” - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight ClubMy favourite quite from my favourite movie.How beautifully yet in a frightening way, Chuck has managed to write the meaning of our lives in a single paragraph.From the beginning of our lives we have been exposed to these screens on which we will probably spend 90% of our life if not more and on those screens majorly advertisement and every fucking industry is selling an idea, that we are bound (...)

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The #internet, Instant Gratification, and the Lost Art of Thinking
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Previously, I made the case that the majority of society suffers from an impulse to categorize the world when attempting to understand it, instead of actually thinking (see here). That is, we equate understanding things with categorizing them. This has a number of negative consequences including emboldening our biases.If either I have sufficiently made this case to you or you’ve experienced it yourself and it’s already apparent to you, I’d now like to consider where this actually comes from. In particular, what kind of role might information technology play in this? I am by no means a luddite, but information technology is omnipresent in our lives and most would agree that it changes the way that we think or has the potential to.Consider that we often want to understand the world around (...)

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