Narrow-Minded - "not willing to accept opinions, beliefs, behaviors, etc. that are unusual or different from one's own : not open-minded." - "a defining characteristic of humans in the early 21st century"
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Top 10 importers of major arms and their top 3 suppliers, 2017–21 (SIPRI)
- 1) India🇮🇳
- 2) Saudi Arabia🇸🇦
- 3) Egypt🇪🇬
- 4) Australia🇦🇺
- 5) China🇨🇳
- 6) Qatar🇶🇦
- 7) South Korea🇰🇷
- 8) Pakistan🇵🇰
- 9) UAE🇦🇪
- 10) Japan🇯🇵
Together they received 55% of global arms imports.
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Knowledge about Knowledge
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about" - Alfred North Whitehead
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge" - Alfred North Whitehead
"Complete liberty of contradicting and disapproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right." - John Stuart Mill (1859)
"Action without knowledge is vanity. Knowledge without action is insanity." - Imām Muḥammad al-Ġazālīy رَحْمَةُ الله عليه
"... and above every lord of knowledge there is one who knows more." - The Qur'an, Surah Yusuf, Ayah 76 (12:76)
"The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth." - Frithjof Schuon ق, Understanding Islam
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Harnessing the power of the sun to purify water
Harnessing the power of the sun to purify water. In southern France, an innovative system called Helio is doing that. The self-sufficient small sphere can distil dirty water or seawater. It also emits zero CO2, making it completely sustainable.
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Today in "the fall of civilization": 🤡 Tax & War
“The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact”. - George Orwell, 1984
🤡 "Rule based order"
🤡 "International community"
🤡 "Look what Putin did to rents…"
🤡 "Look what Putin did to the Internet..."
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Seeing a Bayesian Ghost: Sensorimotor Activation Leads to an Illusory Social Perception
• Expecting a response to a social action can lead to an illusion of another person
• The brain does not merely respond to social signals but anticipates social behavior
• Sensorimotor activity indicates top-down predictions that outweigh sensory input
• Illusory social perception is associated with sensorimotor and parietal activity
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The burden of having too much knowledge
“Having too much knowledge is not good for people, just as having too much money is not good for them. It might sound like a strange comparison, but it is true: too much money is not a good thing, just as too much knowledge is not good if people cannot counteract it by using it in service of mankind or the world.” - Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 348 – Über Gesundheit und Krankheit – Dornach, 3 February 1923 (p. 310)
