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The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond

"The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss."

The Human Cosmos by Jo Marchant

"Personal experience has been swept from our understanding of reality, replaced by the abstract, mathematical grid of space-time."

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

"Most people today successfully live up to the capitalist–consumerist ideal. The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money and that the masses give free reign to their cravings and passions and buy more and more. This is the first religion in history whose followers actually do what they are asked to do."

"How though do we know that we'll really get paradise in return? We've seen it on television."

Golden Age

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In Love With the World by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and Helen Tworkov

"When I examined my difficulties with too much newness all at once, I could see ego-self as a process, not as a solid thing. I was not able to allow all my previous identities to die at once. I needed time. I needed to work through the layers. I accepted that the roles I wished to toss onto the pyre were fabricated, not inherent to my being. But they could not be extracted as if with a surgical procedure. I had grown into them, and I needed to grow out of them.”

"By habit we perceive ourselves and the world around us as solid, real, and enduring. Yet without much effort, we can easily determine that not one aspect within the whole world’s system exists independent of change."

In Love With The World

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

"By 2014 nearly half of the US population lived in functional poverty, with the highest wage in the bottom half of earners at about $34,000."

"We live in the knowledge that our lives have unique value, but we are treated as invisible. As the rewards of late-stage financial capitalism slip beyond our grasp, we are left to contemplate the future in a bewilderment that erupts into violence with increasing frequency. Our expectations of psychological self-determination are the grounds upon which our dreams unfold, so the losses we experience in the slow burn of rising inequality, exclusion, pervasive competition, and degrading stratification are not only economic. They slice us to the quick in dismay and bitterness because we know ourselves to be worthy of individual dignity and the right to a life on our own terms.”

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