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- Human beings are social creatures who have begun to build anti-social environments.
- You can never be happy with social media, which is a tool for measuring yourself as a brand against other peoples’ brands.
- Narcissism simply replaces God. We worship our own image. The Banality of Idolatry.
- Technology does not make the world a better place, it just enhances the practical power of human beings to make the world a better or worse place — and they tend to make it worse.
- Everyone gradually becomes a ‘catfish’ as we cling to the best photos of ourselves as the body perversely ages.
- Individualistic society increases your willingness to take risks, to gamble. If you live in an unequal society, you’re constantly playing against the house.
- Compassion should imply environmentalism.
- Trump is the perfect president for a nation of a petty narcissists; we don’t realize how much we deserve him.
- There is nothing more vulgar than genetic explanations of why people succeed or fail.
- If you vote for a leftist candidate like Bernie, delete your social media, and anything else that connotes with self-promotion and income signaling.
