While we dedicate all our attention to new videos, all our concern to the "Likes," and all our anxiety to the results of our favorite team (in whatever sport it may be), the new space exploration seems dangerously to recreate the colonial and exploitative imperialism that has prevailed in the world …
Blog posts August 2024
Algorithms and monologues: from fragmented communication to the loss of the sacred
I recently witnessed (by chance, without participating) a strange exchange at a social gathering in which one person brought up a topic and shared a very brief comment, and then another person spoke about another topic, unconnected to the previous one, and so on. It was seeing the flow of posts on F…
Embracing the Limits of Wisdom: Socratic Insights for Our Times
In the Apology of Socrates (23a), Plato presents Socrates explaining that when the Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings, what the oracle really meant was that Socrates' wisdom lay in understanding that "human wisdom is worth little or nothing." Almost two and a half millennia…
Echoes of Enlightenment: The Perils of Delegating Thought in a Fragmented World
With some frequency, both in direct conversations and through social networks, I hear or read people who are looking for a guru, or reference, or influencer who provides them with answers and solutions for the problems that these people face in their lives in the context of an increasingly chaotic, …
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