The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy
On the concept of freedom: minute 1:03:45
On the concept of power: minute 1:05:01
On the concept of community: 1:05:50
On empathy:
The most civilized societies are the ones that can move empathy to larger reigns.
Here.
"Happiness are the blank pages of History, because they are the periods of harmony"
Hegel
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The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy / Biosphere Consciousness
Life – A painful struggle
"To love animals as well as humans increases one's capacity for suffering; sometimes I have envied those who are indifferent to mammals of other species than their own, but perhaps it increases, too, a general perception and understanding, the compassion and tenderness that is all too latent in most humanity – so latent that by now we threaten the survival even of our own species. These things which constituted my attitude towards the two otters made my decision the outcome of a painful struggle, more painful than I would care to describe. But the struggle was over, the decision made. The otters were going, Camusferàrna would be closed; somewhere I would find a new life."
Gavin Maxwell, Raven Seek Thy Brother
When we hold space, we release control and we honour differences
HOLDING SPACE
"It means that we are willing to walk alongside another person in whatever journey they’re on without judging them, making them feel inadequate, trying to fix them, or trying to impact the outcome. When we hold space for other people, we open our hearts, offer unconditional support, and let go of judgement and control. [...] To truly support people in their own growth, transformation, grief, etc., we can’t do it by taking their power away (ie. trying to fix their problems), shaming them (ie. implying that they should know more than they do), or overwhelming them (ie. giving them more information than they’re ready for). We have to be prepared to step to the side so that they can make their own choices, offer them unconditional love and support, give gentle guidance when it’s needed, and make them feel safe even when they make mistakes. [...] Keep your own ego out of it. This is a big one. We all get caught in that trap now and then – when we begin to believe that someone else’s success is dependent on our intervention, or when we think that their failure reflects poorly on us, or when we’re convinced that whatever emotions they choose to unload on us are about us instead of them."
Mais aqui.
Empathy and critical thinking
"But I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the
philosopher Henry Sidgwick called “the point of view of the universe”,
and look from above, and realize that we are not special, none of us
are, I think it would just cause a transformation."
"That something can be used for good isn’t necessarily a knockdown argument for it."
"Here I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and
kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because
it’s a poor moral guide. And I think there’s a lot of evidence
suggesting that they’re right"
"I taught a course called “Habits of Mind” last semester with a friend of
mine, Tamar Gendler, who is a philosopher, and we explored questions
such as the relationship between emotions and reason, and what it is to
live a good life."
"I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement
when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on
something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others
without putting ourselves in their shoes. I think, for instance, there’s
some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police
officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out.
Imagine if you’re dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their
pain all the time, and the pain of their parents—you wouldn’t be able
to do that job for very long. It would kill you. What you need is to
care for them, but have some distance. Pull back. That’s what I’m
arguing for."
Aqui
Paul Bloom's Lab
"Z" a geração altruísta
Um total de 77% está preocupado em não se endividar. É uma geração
altruísta, nada egoísta. Vai se mostrar forte e politicamente
sensibilizada por questões como a desigualdade economia e social. E 95%
pensam que se deve ajudar a quem precisa, mas estão muito desiludidos
com a política tradicional.”
Aqui
Mais sobre o futuro: After The Millenials
Apocalipse NOW / Cisnes negros / Bodes expiatórios
A matter of imagination, maturity and survival.
Mais do que nunca, chegou o tempo em que vamos pôr à prova a nossa capacidade para nos ajudarmos uns aos outros.
"When none of the moral illumination of institutions was present,
kindness was all that remained, and the pale light of the individual
rescuers shone."
Não há dinheiro no mundo que pague a ajuda pronta e desinteressada.
O sabor da gratidão é doce e faz bem à saúde.
"There need not be any compelling reason for concern about life and death, as the Nazi example shows, only a momentary conviction that dramatic action is needed to preserve a way of life."
"Nature has taken some revenge that makes conventional politics seem irrelevant, reducing society to struggle and rescue. The earth’s surface grows wild, humans go feral and anything is possible."
"Hitler was a child of the first globalisation, which arose under imperial auspices at the end of the 19th century. We are the children of the second, that of the late 20th century. Globalisation is neither a problem nor a solution; it is a condition with a history. It brings a specific intellectual danger. Since the world is more complex than a country or a city, the temptation is to seek some master key to understanding everything."
"A problem that is truly planetary in scale, such as climate change, obviously demands global solutions – and one apparent solution is to define a global enemy."
"One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was that the destruction of a state and its ruling elite would bring freedom and justice. In fact, the succession of events precipitated by the illegal invasion of a sovereign state confirmed one of the unlearned lessons of the history of the second world war."
"Destroying states without such malign intentions produces more conventional disasters. [...] The invasion of Iraq killed at least as many people as did the prior Iraqi regime. It exposed the members of the Iraqi ruling party to religious cleansing and prepared the way for chaos throughout the country."
"A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority."
"Though no American would deny that tanks work in the desert, some Americans do deny that deserts are growing larger. Though no American would deny ballistics, some Americans do deny climate science. Hitler denied that science could solve the basic problem of nutrition, but assumed that technology could win territory. It seemed to follow that waiting for research was pointless and that immediate military action was necessary. In the case of climate change, the denial of science likewise legitimates military action rather than investment in technology. If people do not take responsibility for the climate themselves, they will shift responsibility for the associated calamities to other people. Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible. A vicious circle can begin in which politics collapses into ecological panic. The direct consequences of climate change will reach America long after Africa, the Near East and China have been transformed. By then, it will be too late to act."
"When states are absent, rights – by any definition – are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort. "
"Another plurality is between order and freedom: each depends upon the other, although each is different from the other. The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny. The claim that freedom is the lack of order must end in anarchy – which is nothing more than tyranny of a special kind."
"In the case of climate change, we know what the state can do to tame panic. We know that it is easier and less costly to draw nourishment from plants than animals. We know that improvements in agricultural productivity continue and that the desalination of seawater is possible. We know that efficiency of energy use is the simplest way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. We know that governments can assign prices to carbon pollution and can pledge reductions of future emissions to one another and review one another’s pledges. We also know that governments can stimulate the development of appropriate energy technologies."
O sabor da gratidão é doce e faz bem à saúde.
"There need not be any compelling reason for concern about life and death, as the Nazi example shows, only a momentary conviction that dramatic action is needed to preserve a way of life."
"Nature has taken some revenge that makes conventional politics seem irrelevant, reducing society to struggle and rescue. The earth’s surface grows wild, humans go feral and anything is possible."
"Hitler was a child of the first globalisation, which arose under imperial auspices at the end of the 19th century. We are the children of the second, that of the late 20th century. Globalisation is neither a problem nor a solution; it is a condition with a history. It brings a specific intellectual danger. Since the world is more complex than a country or a city, the temptation is to seek some master key to understanding everything."
"A problem that is truly planetary in scale, such as climate change, obviously demands global solutions – and one apparent solution is to define a global enemy."
"One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was that the destruction of a state and its ruling elite would bring freedom and justice. In fact, the succession of events precipitated by the illegal invasion of a sovereign state confirmed one of the unlearned lessons of the history of the second world war."
"Destroying states without such malign intentions produces more conventional disasters. [...] The invasion of Iraq killed at least as many people as did the prior Iraqi regime. It exposed the members of the Iraqi ruling party to religious cleansing and prepared the way for chaos throughout the country."
"A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority."
"Though no American would deny that tanks work in the desert, some Americans do deny that deserts are growing larger. Though no American would deny ballistics, some Americans do deny climate science. Hitler denied that science could solve the basic problem of nutrition, but assumed that technology could win territory. It seemed to follow that waiting for research was pointless and that immediate military action was necessary. In the case of climate change, the denial of science likewise legitimates military action rather than investment in technology. If people do not take responsibility for the climate themselves, they will shift responsibility for the associated calamities to other people. Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible. A vicious circle can begin in which politics collapses into ecological panic. The direct consequences of climate change will reach America long after Africa, the Near East and China have been transformed. By then, it will be too late to act."
"When states are absent, rights – by any definition – are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort. "
"Another plurality is between order and freedom: each depends upon the other, although each is different from the other. The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny. The claim that freedom is the lack of order must end in anarchy – which is nothing more than tyranny of a special kind."
"In the case of climate change, we know what the state can do to tame panic. We know that it is easier and less costly to draw nourishment from plants than animals. We know that improvements in agricultural productivity continue and that the desalination of seawater is possible. We know that efficiency of energy use is the simplest way to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. We know that governments can assign prices to carbon pollution and can pledge reductions of future emissions to one another and review one another’s pledges. We also know that governments can stimulate the development of appropriate energy technologies."
"States should invest in science so that the future can be calmly
contemplated. The study of the past suggests why this would be a wise
course. Time supports thought, thought supports time; structure supports
plurality, and plurality, structure. This line of reasoning is less
glamorous than waiting for general disaster and dreaming of personal
redemption. Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its
heroes are invisible. No conception of a durable state can compete with
visions of totality. No green politics will ever be as exciting as red
blood on black earth."
Excertos do artigo de Timothy Snyder
The continuity of identity / Persona / Personhood
Que metodologias podemos usar para, não só, proteger a identidade mas também torná-la excitante e inovadora...
Science is just science, it's a search for knowledge, but design is a process... Design is a practice that goes about solving problems.
You can have a body without a brain, but you can't have a person without a brain.
Perception is an illusion... And then we get back to Plato.
It's very important that we start thinking about our memories.
The major issue is: when can we backup the brain?
The whole issue here is about values, there will be many people who will want to stay biological humans and they ought to have that choice, there will be many people who will want to stay in a trans-human state and that ought to be their choice, and there will be the ones will want to upload and be post-humans and come back and be in a human body...
Solving problems requires a sense of compassion, of empathy, and strong design.
Valores / Values
Amizade / Friendship
Sentido de humor / Sense of humor
Criatividade de pensamento / Creative thinking
Honestidade / Honesty
Respeito / Respect
Liberdade / Freedom
Genuinidade / Uniqueness
Assertividade / Assertiveness
Compaixão / Compassion
Abertura / Openness
Curiosidade / Curiosity
Tolerância / Tolerance
Social psychologists have developed a simple activity, called a values affirmation, that can restore our sense of equilibrium.
Perdido por um, perdido por mil...
Bad events / Loss aversion in the law
"More recent research has supported the observations of reference-dependent fairness and has also shown that fairness concerns are economically significant, a fact we had suspected but did not prove. Employers who violate rules of fairness are punished by reduced productivity, and merchants who follow unfair pricing policies can expect to lose sales. […] Unfairly imposing losses on people can be risky if the victims are in a position to retaliate. Furthermore, experiments have shown that strangers who observe unfair behavior often join in the punishment. Neuroeconomists (scientists who combine economics with brain research) have used MRI machines to examine the brains of people who are engaged in punishing one stranger for behaving unfairly to another stranger. Remarkably, altruistic punishment is accompanied by increased activity in the "pleasure centers" of the brain. It appears that maintaining the social order and the rules of fairness in this fashion is its own reward. Altruistic punishment could well be the glue that holds societies together. However, our brains are not designed to reward generosity as reliably as they punish meanness. Here again, we find a marked asymmetry between losses and gains."
Daniel Kahneman, in "Thinking, Fast and Slow"
On Giving
Those who dare give nothing
Are left with less than nothing;
Dear heart, you give me everything,
Which leaves you more than everything –
Though those who dare give nothing
Might judge it left you less than nothing.
Giving you everything,
I too, who once had nothing,
Am left with more than everything
As gifts for those with nothing
Who need, if not our everything,
At least a loving something.
Robert Graves
Homenagem
Quando estava contente a boca sabia-lhe a maçã.
Dava pulos e extravasava alegria.
Naquele tempo tinha vergonha dela.
Porque a minha timidez encarcerava-me.
Todos lhe dávamos um desconto.
Todos lhe dávamos "lições".
Hoje, daria um desconto às suas manifestações de frustração e impotência, por saber que há marés contra as quais não se consegue lutar.
Morreu vítima de tanto sofrimento.
Hoje dava-me jeito que estivesse por aqui.
Inteligência emocional
INSULTED
"You are ugly"
I know,
I've been told this.
"You are silly"
I know,
I have realized this.
"You look like an alien"
I know,
this has been pointed out to me.
"You have big eyes"
I know,
I have looked in the mirror.
"You can't be a pilot,
you are not smart enough"
It is possible,
I have considered this.
With every insult
you invent,
it is strange,
but it's true.
You point out
my many failings
and help me to improve.
As you highlight
my many
weaknesses,
you also highlight
my strengths.
My ugliness
leads to my kind
personality.
My silliness
brings laughter
to the world.
My resemblance to
movie aliens
only highlights
my intelligence.
My big eyes
portray my feelings
and widen my view.
I may not make it
as a pilot,
but I could be.
You see,
every insult
you invent
gives me a view
into your mind.
Although I have
many problems,
I feel sorry for you.
Why, oh why
do I feel sorry for you?
Because your mind
cannot break free.
The wall of insults
you build
limits your mind
of feelings.
So, soon,
if you don't stop,
you'll turn inhuman,
and have the biggest
problem of all:
Loneliness.
Think about it!
Ser sobredotado é..
"Sometimes you can't define as well as you can describe."
"The gifted are not going to be teacher pleasers, necessarily. They are not going to be kids that are always going to be on time, turn in the best work... They are not always going to follow the rules and they are not necessarily going to get straight "A"s."
"They sink deeply into concerns, they feel deeply for others. It's almost if they carry the burdens of the world on their shoulders."
"Being gifted is, actually, harder."
"The folks who are intelectually lonely, the one's who don't feel that there's anyone out there who understands them."
No reino do "Here and Now"
Imagem do filme, "The Secret Life of Words", de Isabel Coixet
Só poderá praticar a verdadeira compaixão aquele que percorreu o caminho da solidão e do sofrimento interior. De resto tratar-se-á de mais um exercício de treino da boa vontade.
The act of "showing" we understand is quite different from the actual "acting in a way that we really understand". Digo eu.
