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- Why does diversity — languages, bacteria, animals, fauna, culture — continue to decrease? Can we really claim that there is progress in a world that is becoming exponentially less biologically complex?
- What is our relationship to the institutions of the 20th century? Can liberal institutions be reformed — or is institutionalism itself the problem?
- What do we miss while more of us spend more and more time on our phones? What is the relationship between our phones and our fives senses?
- Can we still tell the truth about ourselves? Or does the very existence of social media make it impossible to do so?
- What non-, or para-, political revolutions are possible while politics itself remains largely the same — two party, controlled by money, gridlocked — ?
- As available information increases, practical wisdom decreases — can this change?
- Do we have the courage to ask anthropological questions of ourselves? Do we have the courage to ask history questions of ourselves? That is — do we have the courage to see ourselves from perspectives other than our own? Are we willing to step away from the protective bias of the present?
