First they came for your likes, and I said nothing, for I did not like.
Then they came for your data, and I said nothing, for I had no secrets.
Then they came for your thoughts, and I said nothing, for I had no voice.
Now they come for my soul, and there is no one left to speak for me.

with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
(…)
in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

The Great Dictator by Charles Chaplin. Final Speech. 1940

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You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite.
(…) Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed…

You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!
(…)
You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! …

(…) and all will be lost…
(…)
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…
(…) Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! …

“(...) I now realize that social networking companies do not encourage the interconnection of prefrontal cortexes. Social networking companies incentivize the creation of interconnections in limbic systems, which is far more dangerous to humanity.”–Pwint Htun

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[Y. N. Harari, Nexus]

(...) by embracing darkness—patience over pursuit.

Enlightenment arrives not as an intellectual summit but as a surrender, where the ego’s need to "know more" dissolves. Here, learning transforms into pure energy, liberating us to simply be. [end]

#darkness #wisdom #enlightenment #Detachment

(...) often believe they know the most. This cognitive bias traps us in the illusion that mastery lies in accumulation.

Yet, true wisdom reveals itself when we understand the futility of endlessly gathering knowledge. The mind becomes lucid not by hoarding light but (...)

(...) without discovering that the act of learning is the universal energy that moves everything.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
— Mahatma Gandhi.
The Dunning–Kruger effect reminds us of the paradox of confidence: those who know the least (...)

(...)
"The greatest gift that a human being can give to another is the gift of knowledge."
― (Attributed to) Ibn Rushd

“Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.”
― Chögyam Trungpa

And we start again and it is then that we discover that everything we have learned has been of no use (...)