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If we are to create a joyful society rich in cooperation, we must especially liberate our children from the panoptic gaze.
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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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Without safety nets of trust or secure traditions… relations crumble into obsession and compulsion. – Anothing Giddens
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In a society built on trust, we may never fully know one another, but we will be given the opportunity to reveal ourselves willingly, over time.
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…over time… We will be given the chance to open up, the opportunity to create something together based on love and respect, not force.
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As we plunge into a new world of infinitely connectible and accessible information, we risk losing our means and ability to go beneath the surface, to think deeply.
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Done well, reading gives us a deeply meaningful framework for living.
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This miraculous cultural invention [reading], a feat so unnatural that it necessitates a painstaking rewiring of the brain to learn, shapes our understanding of life.
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Data begin to outstrip the making of meaning, in part because our technologies create an unending stream of information that reveals new arenas of human ignorance…
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Throughout history, humans have overestimated their abilities and their wisdom. But hubris is risky.
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