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human nature, Social Media, Consumerism, Classical Liberalism, Conformity …

- - - - we now make most our decisions not by deliberation and consultation, which draw from the deeper regions of human passion and native reason, but by subtle inclination of desire and fear that are, detached from that reason, shaped and channelled by artificial intelligence and corporate algorithms.
        
        Role of social media
        
        The main task of social media is to study and manipulate human behaviour, to shape and channel our decision-making process from relatively superficial to profoundly subliminal levels of consciousness. We’re constantly being tracked and measured and receiving engineered feedback. We’re being hypnotized little by little by technicians we can’t see, for purposes we don’t know
        
        Knowledge
        
        Our inward states are nurtured by the acquisition of knowledge of history, literature, and religion, as well as by our experiential learning.
        
        Knowledge
        
        Social media
- - - - Diversity
        
        For example, within Christianity, believers differ significantly on the nature of God. Some see God as all-controlling, others as self-limiting, and still others as incapable of unilaterally controlling any aspect of reality.Muslims also differ significantly among themselves on these same divine attributes . Consider, for example, the wide variety of Muslim perspectives on such issues as the autonomy of the individual when interpreting the Qur’an, how best to apply core Islamic values to modern life, and the status of women. We find equally pervasive, significant intra-system diversity in Hinduism and Judaism
        
        We find ourselves in a pluralistic society of countless creeds, colors, and cultures. In reality, this chromatic character of our society has been subsumed into a monotonous monoculture of ersatz arts, entertainment, and consumerism
    - - The essence of all religion resides in mystery: the mystery of God, of human nature, of iniquity, of difference, of obedience, of hierarchy, of talent, of discipline, of devotion, of family, of love, of hate, of goodness, and of sin and evil. But we find ourselves in a culture that is not just uncomfortable with mystery; it disdains it. The mysterious, the unknowable, the unfathomable must be removed from our world; all must be revealed, every mystery slain: this materialistic, empiricist axiom is most embodied by modern science’s mad pursuit of the “singularity point” where artificial intelligence (AI) will reveal all to us. That which is unseen and unknowable must be condemned as nonsense.
- - - - Freedom of speech
- - - - Plularism