Honey, They Shrunk the Choice Architecture
Who’s nudging me? Who’s arranging my choices? Who’s engineering my “choice architecture” and by what values?
Who’s nudging me? Who’s arranging my choices? Who’s engineering my “choice architecture” and by what values?
C.S. Lewis tried to warn us about the collusion of science and state powers used against humanity for “the public good.”
He saw societal transformation coming about by a “march through the institutions.”
“American thought is dominated by a “prevailing vision” which seals itself off from any empirical evidence that is inconsistent with that vision.”
“I don’t go in to visit these girls and give them a tract and say ‘God bless you,’ and invite them around to take tea with me. That’s not my kind of work. There are some girls that it’s mighty hard to help, but there are some little, fresh young things that have just been brought to Chinatown, and that you can sometimes reach in time to save them.” -Rose Livingston
“Whip the groaning masses towards . . . a theoretical future happiness, which only we[f] can see”?
“The church is like a country club.”
That’s what I said to my parents as a teenager back in the 60s.
What do we talk about when we talk about apocalypse?