The Atlantic’s article on singularity from last year stayed in my mind.
I like that quote:
“While the way to wisdom leads through knowledge, there is no path to wisdom from information.”
Folks conflate information with knowledge. They forget how information needs to simmer and connect efficiently with context, which takes times. That’s how knowledge emerges and from there, wisdom. It takes time, this is not after a single tap on a touch screen.
The best one if from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
“I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; …an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; … an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship.”
Ma’am you are cutting deep here. This is spot on.
We need to get ourselves together.