Author and writer David Zweig helps us parse the well-meaning but sometimes inaccurate communication from our health officials about Covid-19. In his monologue, Rushkoff remembers his late accountant, Sheldon Gordon, and how we can morally blend together our economic and social lives. You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Family Enterprise, on Medium. […]
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My accountant Sheldon Gordon died Monday night. It might not be the kind of news one would normally think about for too long, much less write about. Your accountant dies, you find another one. It’s just business. Right? Not really. See, Shelly cared about me and my family in a way that transcends what we
Heute scheint sich die westliche Welt, allen voran die Vereinigten Staaten, inmitten einer klassischen Girard’schen Opferkrise zu befinden. Einst verlässliche soziale Institutionen zerbröckeln. Die Öffentlichkeit verliert das Vertrauen in ihre politischen, finanziellen, rechtlichen und medizinischen Autoritäten. Die neue Generation ist ärmer und kränker als die letzte. Nur wenige, egal welcher politischen Überzeugung, glauben, dass die
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Wir leben ein Doppelleben, zivilisiert in wissenschaftlichen und technischen Dingen, wild und primitiv in den Dingen der Seele. Dass wir uns nicht mehr bewusst sind, primitiv zu sein, macht unsere gezähmte Wildheit umso gefährlicher. – Hans von Hentig Die natürliche Ordnung gerät aus den Fugen. Seuchen, Überschwemmungen, Dürreperioden, politische Unruhen, Krawalle und Wirtschaftskrisen folgen eine
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Die Überwindung der erlösenden Gewalt Diese Essayreihe soll einen Weg aufzeigen, das alte Muster zu überwinden, bei dem die Gesellschaft ihre Wut, Ängste und Rivalitäten an einer entmenschlichten Opfergruppe entlädt. René Girard nennt dieses Muster opferkultische Gewalt. Diese unterschwellige Kraft wächst in Zeiten sozialer Spannungen, wie während einer Wirtschaftskrise, Hungersnot, Epidemie oder bei politischen Unruhen.
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Actor, writer, and media philosopher Ryan George helps us contend with the absurdity of our particular instance in the multiverse. In his monologue, Rushkoff ponders what Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse means for our humanity. You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue on CNN. Click here to stream Team Human. The post Team Human ep.
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Author of Blockchain Chicken Farm and creative director at Logic Magazine xiaowei r. wang helps us contend with the fact that social trust simply may not be something that can scale. In his monologue, Rushkoff asks why we should create solutions “at scale” if operating at scale, itself, is the problem. You can read a
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Psychiatrist Norman Doidge, MD, has recently published a long, four-part article entitled Needle Points, in which he examines vaccine skepticism in America. The author, who got vaccinated “early and voluntarily,” is solidly pro-vaccine, yet he displays what is in these divisive times an unusual willingness to see the issue from the perspective of those with whom he
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Maybe this is what Silicon Valley’s demigods have been dreaming about since the beginning. A profound reversal of the relationship between human beings and technology, a flipping of the real and virtual. I’m speaking of the project Mark Zuckerberg launched on Thursday. It was the metaverse, he said, and also announced that his company’s name had changed,
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Republishing from last year, for obvious reasons A few years ago at a retreat I was outlining the dark side of the triumphalist mythology of progress. A man raised his hand and shared the following story. “When I was a boy in the early 1960s,” he said, “my father took me aside one day and
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