Posts tagged quote
Posts tagged quote
The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins. - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Productive lives come to those who act congruently.
Good ideas come to those who think congruently.
Instead of dreaming of a utopian world (or dreading a dystopian one), Why not acknowledge that omnitopia is always both good and evil, And your topia right now, wherever it is, requires that you make some decisions about how you are going to live.
Pariser is concerned that invisible “smart” customization of your Internet experience can make you parochial, exploiting your cognitive blind-spots to make you overestimate the importance or prevalence of certain ideas, products and philosophies and underestimate others. In Pariser’s view, invisible, unaccountable, commercially driven customization turns into a media-bias-of-one, an information system that distorts your perception of reality.
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/23/the-filter-bubble-ho.html?dlvrit=36761
This article looks at how people can become narrow minded, with particular focus on the internet.
There is no need to amplify your intentions by repeating them as certainties. By wording things as contingencies, I feel that I am to make room for change based on the facts as they come.
