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…a society that leaves no room for attachment cannot make songlines. We are not using maps to ground ourselves but rather, to enable ourselves to keep moving on.
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Detachment is the cost of our wondrous, liberating mobility, the price we pay for living untethered.
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…myriad experiments show that, as people pay less attention to what and how they eat, they are increasingly prey to marketers of abundance.
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If we pause, we can begin to see that the land of distraction is a topography of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment.
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…the measurement and management of risk is more central to our culture than ever before, as the unavoidable cost of navigating a world that we feel that we can actively shape…
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Managing risks… is a way of organizing the future, and surveillance is a natural offshoot of our now-obsessive efforts to control what’s coming around the corner.
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Along with the slippery perimeters of cyberspace, we micro-manage the boundaries of our physical realms, unwittingly turning ourselves into intruders in our own safe zones… – Steven Flusty
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Today we firmly depend on our powers of visual attention to understand our environment. The eyes have it, we’ve come to believe.
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By trusting someone, we also acknowledge his or her capability to be trusted in some respect.
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Children need space to experiment in a world of mutable selves, relations, and institutions, and they need to be given the chance to build… ‘active trust’ born of mutual disclosure. – Anthony Giddens
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