People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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Mankind invents things to fight about.
The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.
It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
To identify the enemy is to free the mind.
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