Before and After the iPhone
When prehistoric fossils were first discovered in rocks, 18th century scientists insisted that they were natural formations, accidental conformations of rock, rather than undertake a massive revision of all their ideas about nature and the age of the earth.
—Colin Wilson, Magnificent Ruin
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This generation, we recall, had been disillusioned by the religions, politics, and economics of their parents. Growing up with the threat of nuclear war, the assassination of beloved leaders, immune deficiencies, a collapsing industrial system, an impossible national debt, religious fundamentalisms (Christian-Jewish- Islamic) that fanatically scream hatred and intolerance, and uncomprehending neglect of the ecology, they have developed a healthy skepticism about collective solutions.
They can’t retreat back home because Mom and Dad are divorced.
No wonder they have created a psychology of individual navigation. Singularity. The basic idea is self-responsibility. You just can’t depend on anyone else to solve your problems. You gotta do it all by yourself — With a little help from your friends.
Bitches be storm troopin
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Intelligence is an emergent phenomenon in the universe. Increasing with complexity as it flows with the river of time.
During the Bay of Pigs invasion, Leary and Allen Ginsberg hatched a plan to save the world from nuclear disaster by administering LSD to both John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro believing that the ‘rewiring’ of brains by mind-altering drugs was a legitimate strategy to promote the evolution of intelligence.
US Public School System
Shake and bake
