Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
"All those who enter into the holy active life by indecisive intentions and not at all by means of the profundities of grand principles and of intelligence, throw themselves on the Holy Scriptures, with a preferences for the Gospels and the Books of Wisdom, because they find there the fruits already given without the trouble of cultivating them or making them grow. But it is also rare that the food they take penetrates very far, as long as they do not seek to tap into the sap of the tree. They are rather like those men of the world who are accustomed to surround themselves with the perfume of flowers, and to seduce their senses with all the productions of the earth, without knowing any of the processes that makes them grow, and without expending the least sweat in the direction of their cultivation. But also, they may not be counted in the rank of cultivators. Their nourishment is precarious, and they could very easily find themselves without the means of subsistence. Finally, they depart from the true state of man, the prophetic state, which is the only period of written history where man is a ground under cultivation."
- 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕-𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏, 𝑶𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑽𝒐𝒍. 𝑰𝑰
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- 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒊𝒔 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕-𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏, 𝑶𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔. 𝑽𝒐𝒍. 𝑰𝑰
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Forwarded from Wakingup1984
There's an emerging market called Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man - it worships data. From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips...If humankind is indeed a single data-processing system, what is its output? Dataists would say that its output will be the creation of a new and even more efficient data-processing system, called the Internet-of-All-Things. Once this mission is accomplished, Homo sapiens will vanish.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yuval-noah-harari-dataism
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yuval-noah-harari-dataism