Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1)
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page 7 What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The resu...
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Part V: Resilience - 21. Meditation
JUST OBSERVE The technique of Vipassana is based on the insight that the flow of mind is closely interlinked with body sensations. Between me and the world there are always body sensations. The que... -
Part V: Resilience - 20. Meaning
LIFE IS NOT A STORY THE WEIGHT OF THE ROOF HOCUS-POCUS AND THE INDUSTRY OF BELIEF Almost anything can be turned into a ritual, by giving mundane gestures like lighting candles, ringing bells or cou... -
Part V: Resilience - 19. Education
CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT THE HEAT IS ON But in the twenty-first century, you can hardly afford stability. If you try to hold on to some stable identify, job or world view, you risk being left be... -
Part IV: Truth - 18. Science Fiction
THE FUTURE IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE IN THE MOVIES We believe that buying more stuff will make us happy because we saw the capitalist paradise with our own eyes on television. 这大概是我迟迟还没有下单买... -
Part IV: Truth - 17. Post-Truth
SOME FAKE NEWS LASTS FOREVER THE POST-TRUTH SPECIES We are the only mammals that can cooperate with numerous strangers because only we can invent fictional stories, spread them around, and convince... -
Part IV: Truth - 15. Ignorance
YOU KNOW LESS THAN YOU THINK THE BLACK HOLE OF POWER Worse still, great power inevitably distorts the truth. Power is all about changing reality rather than seeing it for what it is. When you have ... -
Part III: Despair and Hope - 14. Secularism 世俗主义
ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SHAWDOW THE SECULAR IDEAL Consider, for example, attitudes to sexuality. How do secular people decide whether to endorse or oppose rape, homosexuality, bestiality and incest? By ex... -
Part III: Despair and Hope - 12. Humility & 13. God
12. Humility YOU ARE NOT THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD FREUD'S MOTHER ETHICS BEFORE THE BIBLE THE BIRTH OF BIGOTRY 不理解宗教就没有办法理解西方社会(或者几乎是除了中国以外的所有社会)。 JEWISH PHYSICS, C... -
Part III: Despair and Hope - 11. War
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HUMAN STUPIDITY THE VIEW FROM THE KREMLIN THE LOST ART OF WINNING WARS Yet in the twenty-first century only puny profits can be made that way. Today the main economic assets con... -
Part III: Despair and Hope - 10. Terrorism
DONT PANIC Compared to the Somme offensive, terrorism is a puny matter. The Paris attacks of November 2015 killed 130 people, [...] 我明白作者的意思,如果以人数来衡量,恐怖袭击造成的伤害是极小的。... -
Part II: The Political Challenge - 9. Immigration
SOME CULTURES MIGHT BE BETTER THAN OTHERS Since pro-immigrationists think that people have a right to emigrate to another land if they so wish, and host countries have a duty to absorb them, they r... -
Part II: The Political Challenge - 8. Religion
GOD NOW SERVES THE NATION TECHNICAL PROBLEMS: CHRISTIAN AGRICULTURE POLICY PROBLEMS: MUSLIM ECONOMICS IDENTITY PROBLEMS: THE LINES IN THE SAND We are trapped, then, between a rock and a hard place.... -
Part II: The Political Challenge - 7. Nationalism
GLOBAL PROBLEMS NEED GLOBAL ANSWERS Believing that my nation is unique, that it deserves my allegiance and that I have special obligations towards its members inspires me to care about others and m... -
Part II: The Political Challenge - 6. Civilisation
THERE IS JUST ONE CIVILISSATION IN THE WORLD Human groups are defined more by the changes they undergo than by any continuity, but they nevertheless manage to create for themselves ancient identiti... -
Part II: The Political Challenge - 5. Community
HUMANS HAVE BODIES ONLINE VS. OFFLINE [...] Yet what people might really need are the tools to connect to their own experiences. [..] Indeed, what they feel is increasingly determined by the online... -
Part I: The Technological Challenge - 3. Liberty
BIG DATA IS WATCHING YOU Referendums and elections are always about human feelings, not about human rationality. If democracy were a matter of rational decision-making, there would be absolutely no... -
Part I: The Technological Challenge - 2. Work
WHEN YOU GROW UP, YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE A JOB Vaunted 'human intuition' is in reality 'pattern recognition'. Good drivers, bankers and lawyers don't have magical intuitions about traffic, investment o... -
Part I: The Technological Challenge - 1. Disillusionment
THE END OF HISTROY HAS BEEN POSTPONED In the 1990s and 2000s this story became a global mantra. Many governments from Brazil to India adopted liberal recipes in an attempt to join the inexorable ma... -
Introduction
These lessons do not conclude with simple answers. They aim to stimulate further thinking, and help readers participate in some of the major conversations of our time. 感觉很多时候作为顾问我们也是...
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